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Academic Staff in Europe Changing Contexts and Conditions
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Jürgen Enders
Book Code: GM1828
ISBN: 0-313-31828-X
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-31828-3
344 pages, figures, tables
Greenwood Press
Publication: 8/30/2001
List Price: $131.95 (UK Sterling Price: £75.00)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects: Reviews:
  • ...readers interested in improving their knowledge of different countries' higher education systems will find this volume valuable.
    —Studies in Higher Education     2002
Description: Higher education is going through a turbulent period of change. Based on a research project coordinated by Jürgen Enders at the University of Kassel in Germany, the book highlights the changes taking place in higher education and examines the working conditions of academic staff in fourteen European countries. All countries in the study have seen changes regarding the actors and procedures relevant for the regulation of the employment relationships of academic staff. Academic staff are higher education's most important asset and most costly resource. Employment and working conditions of academic staff are, therefore, not only influenced by these developments but seen as an important tool for adaptation to the new circumstances higher education faces. Thus it is not only of interest to demonstrate and compare variations across and within countries, but also to analyze the outcomes of the changing academic environment on the academic labor market and the conditions of working life.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Between State Control and Academic Capitalism: A Comparative Perspective on Academic Staff in Europe by Jürgen Enders
  • The Academic Profession in the Two Communities of Belgium by Karel Tavernier
  • Academic Staff in Denmark: The Consequences of Massification in a Small Country by John E. Andersen
  • The Changing Nature of Academic Employment in Finnish Higher Education by Jussi Välimaa
  • Professional Diversity in a Centralized System: Academic Staff in France by Thierry Chevaillier
  • Unsolved Problems and Inadequate Solutions: The Situation of Academic Staff in German Higher Education by Uwe Schimank
  • The Academic Profession in Greece: Current State and Conditions of Employment by D.G. Tsaoussis
  • Academic Staff in Ireland: The Right of Tenure Enacted and Endorsed by Maureen Killeavy and Marie Coleman
  • A Guild in Transition: The Italian Case by Roberto Moscati
  • The End of Public Employment in Dutch Higher Education by Egbert de Weert
  • Expansion, Reorganization, and Discontent among Academic Staff: The Norwegian Case by Svein Kyvik, Ole-Jacob Skodvin, Jens-Christian Smeby, and Susanne Lehmann Sundnes
  • The Academic Profession in a Massifying System: The Portuguese Case by VirgD'ilio A. Meira Soares
  • Adapting to Change: The Academic Profession in Spain by José-Ginés Mora
  • The Academic Profession in Sweden: Diversity and Change in an Egalitarian System by Berit Askling
  • Profession of Prolatariat: Academic Staff in the UK after Two Decades of Change by Oliver Fulton and Chris Holland
  • Index
LC Card Number: 00-049079
LCC Class: LB2331
Dewey Class: 378
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