Gebundenes Buch

The Global Future of Higher Education and the Academic Profession

The Brics and the United States

Herausgegeben: Altbach, Philip G.; Androushchak, G.; Kuzminov, Y.; Yudkevich, Maria; Reisberg, L.

Beschreibung

This is the first book to critically analyze the future of higher education systems in the four BRIC countries - Brazil, Russia, India and China - and the USA, analyzing academic salaries, contracts and working conditions and how national policy will affect the academic profession in each context.

Autor

Martin J. Finkelstein, Seton Hall University, USA Kevin W. Iglesias, Seton Hall University, USA N. Jayaram, Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, Shimla, India Ma Wanhua, Center for International Higher Education at Peking University, China Simon Schwartzman, Instituto de Estudos do Trabalho e Sociedade, Brazil Wen Jianbo, Central University of Finance and Economics, China

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-0-230-36978-8
• 2013 edition
• Seitenzahl: 206
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Februar 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 208mm x 156mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 409g
• ISBN-13: 9780230369788
• ISBN-10: 0230369782
• Artikelnr.: 37255070

Rezensionen

"policymakers and ... those interested in global issues in higher education, including scholars in international and comparative higher education, will find a wealth of interesting facts and comparisons in this volume." - Higher Education