Academic inbreeding and mobility in higher education : global perspectives /

• Other Authors: Yudkevich, Maria (επιμελήτρια), Altbach, Philip G. (επιμελητής), Rumbley, Laura (επιμελήτρια)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Houndsmill, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
• Series: Palgrave studies in global higher education
• Subjects: Πανεπιστημιακοί καθηγητές > Επιλογή και πρόσληψη.; Πανεπιστήμια και κολλέγια > Διδακτικό προσωπικό > Επαγγελματική απασχόληση.

"Academic inbreeding - hiring and promoting one's own graduates - is generally seen as a negative for academic quality and for universities - it is considered as unhealthy for universities as it is in the natural world. Yet it is remarkably widespread across the globe. This book is the fir...

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• 1. Academic Inbreeding: Local Challenge, Global Problem; Philip G. Altbach, Maria Yudkevich, and Laura E. Rumbley 2. Academic Inbreeding: State of the Literature; Olga Gorelova and Maria Yudkevich 3. Academic Inbreeding in the Argentine University: A Systemic and Organizational Analysis; Marcelo Rabossi 4. Faculty Inbreeding in China: Status, Causes and Results; Hong Shen, Zhiping Xu, and Bingbing Zhang 5. Inbreeding in Japanese Higher Education: Inching Towards Openness in a Globalized Context; Akiyoshi Yonezawa 6. Academic Immobility and Inbreeding in Russian Universities; Elizaveta Sivak and Maria Yudkevich 7. Slovenia: The Slow Decline of Academic Inbreeding; Manja Klemencic and Pavel Zgaga 8. Academic Inbreeding: The South African Case; Saleem Badat 9. Academic Inbreeding in Spanish Universities: Perverse Effects in a Global Context; José-Ginés Mora 10. Academic Inbreeding in Ukraine; Ilona Sologoub and Tom Coupe.