Challenges and Options: The Academic Profession in Europe

1. Introduction
Maria de Lourdes Machado-Taylor, Virgílio Meira Soares, Ulrich Teichler

Part I. Higher Education Academia: Global Challenges

2. Teaching Versus Research: An Endangered Balance?
Ulrich Teichler

3. A Bastion of Elitism or an Emerging Knowledge Proletariat? Some Reflections About Academic Careers with an Economic Slant
Pedro N. Teixeira

4. Academic Strategy in the Emerging University – A Transformational Perspective
Maria de Lourdes Machado-Taylor, Marvin Peterson

Part II. Portuguese Higher Education Academia

5. Academic Job Satisfaction and Motivation: Perspectives from a Nation-Wide Study in Public Higher Education Institutions in Portugal
Maria de Lourdes Machado-Taylor, Virgílio Meira Soares, Rui Brites, J. Brites Ferreira, Minoo Farhangmehr, Odília Gouveia, Marvin Peterson

Part III. Country Chapters

6. Academic Careers During the Massification of Austrian Higher Education
Hans Pechar, Elke Park

7. The Academic Profession in Germany
Ulrich Teichler, Ester Ava Höhle, Anna Katharina Jacob

8. Between Tradition and Transition: The Academic Career in Italy
Massimiliano Vaira

9. The Societal Embeddedness of Academic Markets: From Sex to Gender in the Swiss Context
Gaële Goastellec, Fabienne Crettaz Roten

10. From Academic Profession to Higher Education Workforce: Academic Careers in the UK
John Brennan, Rajani Naidoo, Monica Franco

Keywords: Education, Higher Education