Description: In recent decades, government priorities have shifted away from fiscal support of higher education. This book, drawing on 1992 and 2007 surveys of academics, portrays the reactions of academics here as well as in Europe to these new policies and practices.
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"This book reports on the 2007--2008 Changing Academic Profession (CAP) Survey using inter-country comparisons, and including longitudinal changes since the 1992 Carnegie International Survey of the Academic Profession. ... the volume provides a wealth of information that can be mined by researchers working in the field ... . it has an easy narrative style, reinforced by a helpful summary for readers at the end of each chapter." (Celia Whitchurch, Higher Education, Vol. 66, 2013)