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The Academic Professions in the Global Era

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The Changing Face of Academic Life

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In the last fifteen years several policy moves have enhanced the space for international cooperation and competition in higher education, especially in Europe through staff and student mobility schemes and the initiatives towards a European Higher Education Area and a European Research Area. More important though, often moving ahead of intergovernmental negotiations, has been the growth of global civil society in which higher education plays an important part by constituting global knowledge and culture and educating a globally mobile elite. In a world criss-crossed by travel and communications networks, direct faculty-to-faculty and institution-to-institution relationships across borders have become more extensive and intensive. In higher education, among the most globalised and globalising of all social sectors, its human agents are not fixed but themselves undergo profound changes in identity and work practices. There can be no global flows of people, money, messages, ideas and policies without globalising and globalised human agents (Marginson and Sawir 2005).

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  1. University of Twente, The Netherlands

    Jürgen Enders

  2. University of Twente, The Netherlands

    Egbert de Weert

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Marginson, S. (2009). The Academic Professions in the Global Era. 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_6

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