The Changing Face of Academic Life

1. Introduction

1. Introduction
Jürgen Enders, Egbert Weert

Part I. Modernisation Processes and the Academic Profession

2. The Academic Estate Revisited: Reflections on Academia’s Rapid Progress from the Capitoline Hill to the Tarpeian Rock
Guy Neave

3. New Public Management and the Academic Profession: the Rationalisation of Academic Work Revisited
Jürgen Enders, Harry Boer, Liudvika Leišytė

4. Markets and New Modes of Knowledge Production
Peter Scott

5. Policy Change and the Challenge to Academic Identities
Mary Henkel

6. The Academic Professions in the Global Era
Simon Marginson

Part II. Academic Profession and the Academic Workplace

7. Profession, Market and Organisation: How is Academia Regulated?
Christine Musselin

8. The Organised Contradictions of Teaching and Research: Reshaping the Academic Profession
Egbert Weert

9. Doctoral Education: Pressures for Change and Modernisation
Barbara M. Kehm

10. Work Allocation and Rewards in Shaping Academic Work
James Fairweather

Part III. Changing Employment Relations in Higher Education

11. Employment Relations in Europe: a Comparative and Critical Review
David Farnham

12. Changing Employment Relationships in North America: Academic Work in the United States, Canada and Mexico
Martin J. Finkelstein, Jesús F. Galaz-Fontes, Amy Scott Metcalfe

Part IV. Conclusion

13. Towards a T-shaped Profession: Academic Work and Career in the Knowledge Society
Jürgen Enders, Egbert Weert

Keywords: Education, Higher Education, Organic Chemistry, Structural Geology, Sociology of Education, Sociology of Education, Administration, Organization and Leadership