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Shattock, Michael – History of Education, 2014
This article seeks to compare the characteristics of the academic profession as described historically by Perkin in 1969 against the definitions of a profession derived from the published views of sociologists and others. It then measures the position of the academic community today against these definitions: a common range of professional tasks…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching (Occupation), Higher Education, Universities
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Jayasuriya, Kanishka – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2010
Over the last two decades institutions of higher education have been subject to new modes of regulatory governance. This essay applies a "regulatory lens" to higher education governance with a view to understanding the sometimes contradictory relationship between the globalisation and regionalisation of higher education and the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Universities, Governance