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Recruitment of Academics

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Academic recruitment is the hiring of faculty and consists of different stages from the definition of the need for a position to the appointment of the selected candidate. Academic recruitment is embedded in a system of permanent and fixed-term contracts, affecting the university performance in the long term, and its financial viability.

Academic Recruitment as a Central Task in Higher Education Institutions

The paramount importance of academic recruitment has been either ignored or underestimated in contemporary scholarly debate on higher education (see however Musselin 2005). This is surprising, because the choices leading to an academic recruitment affect the university in the long term. Indeed, academics contribute through their distinctive profiles to teaching, research, and services, to students’ learning and satisfaction, to curriculum development, to doctoral training, research project management and external funding acquisition, as well as to knowledge...

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  1. Department Education, Practice and Society, University College London Institute of Education, 20 Bedford Way, WC1H 0AL, London, UK

    Tatiana Fumasoli

  2. School of Education, Robert Owen Centre for Educational Change, University of Glasgow, St. Andrew’s Building, 11 Eldon Str., G3 6NH, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

    Barbara M. Kehm

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    Jung Cheol Shin

  2. CIPES, Faculty of Economics, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

    Pedro Teixeira

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Fumasoli, T., Kehm, B.M. (2017). Recruitment of Academics. 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_288-1

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