The Academic Profession: Changing Roles, Terms and Definitions
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John Brennan reports on an international study of the academic profession – the Changing Academic Profession project – a successor to the well-known Carnegie study carried out in the early 1990s. Its aim is to examine the changes experienced by academics in different countries and to consider differences and similarities between countries and between kinds of higher education institution, subjects and types of academic job.
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تاریخ انتشار 2006