Research Catalog

Title

Working in higher education / edited by Rob Cuthbert.

Publication

Buckingham ; Bristol, PA, USA : Society for Research into Higher Education & Open University Press, 1996.

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Details

Additional Authors

Cuthbert, Robert E.

Description

xi, 225 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"Many people work in higher education; few pause to examine their experience. This book offers a unique range of fresh perspectives on higher education work. It analyses who are the workers in higher education, their patterns of employment, and what motivates them. It looks at the changing nature of higher education work, not only teaching and research work by academics but also the growing role of others such as professional librarians and information scientists. And it examines the context for higher education work, by looking at changing patterns of academic culture, professionalism and control. Leading academics, managers and practitioners provide analysis, reflections on experience, case studies and more light-hearted contributions. This book is for anyone who wants to reflect on their experience of working in higher education, for all who study higher education, and for anyone who works with higher education and wants to understand it better."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• College teaching > Great Britain
• Education, Higher > Great Britain
• Enseignement supérieur > Grande-Bretagne
• College teaching
• Education, Higher
• Great Britain
• onderwijzen
• teaching
• docenten
• teachers
• hoger onderwijs
• higher education
• beroepsopleiding
• vocational training
• onderzoekers
• research workers
• arbeid (werk)
• labour
• arbeidseconomie
• labour economics
• werkgelegenheid
• employment
• werk
• work
• werkorganisatie
• organization of work
• arbeidskunde
• work study
• hoogleraren
• professors
• wetenschappelijke medewerkers
• academic workers
• Education Policy
• Onderwijsbeleid

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [204]-217) and index.

Contents

1. Working in Higher Education / Rob Cuthbert -- 2. Academic Staff: Information and Data / Brian Ramsden -- 3. Managing the Employment Relationship in Higher Education: Quo Vadis? / Ewart Keep, John Storey and Keith Sisson -- 4. Does It Pay to Work in Universities? / Helen Murlis and Frank Hartle -- 5. Which of Us Has a Brilliant Career? Notes from a Higher Education Survivor / Gaby Weiner -- 6. New Liberty, New Discipline: Academic Work in the New Higher Education / Richard Winter -- 7. Professors and Professionals: On Changing Boundaries / Sheila Corrall and Ray Lester -- 8. Managing How Academics Manage / R. J. Johnston -- 9. Work's Committees / Ian McNay -- 10. Geographical Transitions / Michael Bradford -- 11. Just Like the Novels? Researching the Occupational Culture(s) of Higher Education / Sara Delamont -- 12. Which Academic Profession Are You in? / Oliver Fulton -- 13. Autonomy, Bureaucracy and Competition: the ABC of Control in Higher Education / Marie Thorne and Rob Cuthbert -- 14. All Work and No Play? / Rob Cuthbert.

ISBN

• 0335197221
• 9780335197224
• 0335197213
• 9780335197217

LCCN

96025915

OCLC

• ocm34850518
• 34850518
• SCSB-2121304

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library