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Higher education professionals (HEPROs) are highly qualified persons in universities who are neither top managers nor in charge of the academic functions of teaching, research and teaching and who are hinges of academic and administrative structures and processes in universities.
Higher education professionals (HEPROs) are defined as a group of mainly university-trained personnel who do not fit the binary status system of academic and administrative personnel in universities. Teichler (2003, 183) defines HEPROs as “highly qualified persons in universities who are neither top managers nor in charge of the academic functions of teaching, research, etc.” and who are hinges of academic and administrative structures and processes in universities. In their functions HEPROs support university (academic) management, academics, and students in fulfilling the three university functions of teaching,...
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Schneijderberg, C. (2017). Higher Education Professionals: A Growing Profession. In: Shin, J., Teixeira, P. (eds) Encyclopedia of International Higher Education Systems and Institutions. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9553-1_303-1
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