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  title info:
    title: Professional and Support Staff in Higher Education
  name:
    name part: Bossu, Carina.
    role:
      role term: editor.
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  name:
    name part: Brown, Natalie.
    role:
      role term: editor.
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      role term: edt
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  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: si
    date issued: 2018
    edition: 1st ed. 2018.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: 36 illus., 28 illus. in color. eReference. online resource.
  abstract: This volume, Professional and Support Staff in Higher Education, is focused on the issues and experiences of professional and support staff in higher education. The 29 chapters of this book span a broad range of topic areas, ranging across professional practices and identity, leadership and inclusion in higher education, professional development, and how the current higher education landscape impacts on their work, careers, aspirations and performance. The broad aims of this book are twofold: to contribute to the limited body of knowledge regarding professional and support staff in higher education, and to explore the key issues facing these professionals today through their own contributions. Professional and support staff are one of the universities' most valuable assets, as they hold much of the corporate knowledge required to ensure that universities operate efficiently and effectively. The increasing professionalization of university professional staff has impacted on the roles they currently perform, as more professionals now occupy senior executive positions within universities; positions there were previously occupied by senior academics. Similarly, the boundaries between some professional and academic roles have blurred, creating a sub-category; the para-academic staff. Given the contribution professional and support staff make, and the increasing importance of the roles they perform within their institutions and to the society as a whole, it is surprising that their work, impact, careers, and aspirations remain largely unexplored in the literature and research to date. We hope readers find this book useful and insightful, that it enables greater and deeper insight among and between professional staff and their institutions, and that it contributes meaningfully to the growing body of knowledge and scholarship regarding professional and support staff in higher education globally. We also hope that the book assists in raising awareness about the professions t…
  note: edited by Carina Bossu, Natalie Brown.
  subject:
    topic: Higher education
  subject:
    topic: School management and organization
  subject:
    topic: School administration
  subject:
    topic: International education
  subject:
    topic: Comparative education
  subject:
    topic: Higher Education
  subject:
    topic: Administration, Organization and Leadership
  subject:
    topic: International and Comparative Education
  classification: LB2300-2799.3
  classification: 378
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    title info:
      title: Springer Nature eReference
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    title info:
      title: University Development and Administration
  identifier: 9789811068584
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6858-4
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    record creation date: 180823
    record change date: 20200228024411.0
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