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Work Allocation and Rewards in Shaping Academic Work

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The Changing Face of Academic Life

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In the past decade or so most European nations have increased enrolments in higher education and encouraged universal access, decentralised control from the ministries of education to the universities, and considered ways to stabilise or even reduce public investment as a proportion of the total cost of higher education (Enders and de Weert 2004b; Gornitza and Maassen 2000; Huisman et al. 2002; Musselin 2004; Teixeira et al. 2004). In Finland, for example, recent policies have led to a contractual ‘partnership’ where institutional leaders and the ministry agree on degree production goals and total financing. This policy shift has increased institutional autonomy in setting faculty workloads (Hölttä 1998). At the same time, the Bologna Process (Neave 2003) encourages student and faculty mobility, common credit and degree structures, and similar measures across European national boundaries.

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  1. University of Twente, The Netherlands

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Fairweather, J. (2009). Work Allocation and Rewards in Shaping Academic Work. In: Enders, J., de Weert, E. (eds) The Changing Face of Academic Life. Issues in Higher Education. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230242166_10

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