The Global Future of Higher Education and the Academic
Profession focuses on the all-important emerging BRIC (Brazil,
Russia, India, and China) nations by analyzing the academic
profession and particularly salaries and contracts. The
professoriate is key to the success of any academic system, and
this is the first book to carefully analyze academic systems and
the academic profession. The academic profession must be adequately
paid, and appointments to academic jobs must be based on merit and
provide an effective career path for the 'best and brightest' to be
attracted to the profession. The BRICs show a variety of approaches
to academic careers--and none provide globally competitive
salaries. China and Russia, in particular, pay academics poorly.
Using purchasing power parity, this book is able to accurately
compare the actual purchasing power of the academic profession. The
book also analyzes how professors are appointed and promoted. While
the BRICs may be emerging global economic powers, their academic
systems still face significant challenges.
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