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This is the first book to critically analyze the future of higher education systems in the four BRIC countries - Brazil, Russia, India and China - and the USA, analyzing academic salaries, contracts and working conditions and how national policy will affect the academic profession in each context.

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1. The Prospects for the BRICs: The New Academic Superpowers?; P. Altbach 2. Higher Education, the Academic Profession, and Economic Development in Brazil; S. Schwartzman 3. Changing Realities: Russian Higher Education and the Academic Profession; G. Androushchak, Y. Kuzminov & M. Yudkevich 4. India: Streamlining the Academic Profession for a Knowledge Economy; N. Jayaram 5. The Chinese Academic Profession: New Realities; M. Wanhua and W. Jianbo 6. The Changing American Academic Profession; M. Finkelstein and K. Iglesias

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"policymakers and ... those interested in global issues in higher education, including scholars in international and comparative higher education, will find a wealth of interesting facts and comparisons in this volume." - Higher Education

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Martin J. Finkelstein, Seton Hall University, USA Kevin W. Iglesias, Seton Hall University, USA N. Jayaram, Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, Shimla, India Ma Wanhua, Center for International Higher Education at Peking University, China Simon Schwartzman, Instituto de Estudos do Trabalho e Sociedade, Brazil Wen Jianbo, Central University of Finance and Economics, China

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