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Is it still worth working in academia? The views from portuguese academics
Título Revista
Higher Education Policy
Ano (publicação definitiva)
2018
Língua
Inglês
País
Reino Unido
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Abstract/Resumo
This paper analyses academics’ perceptions about their current working and employment conditions, academic profession’s social prestige and their willingness to change profession. The aim is to discuss the extent to which academics are being affected by changes in higher education institutions and the academic profession as framed by managerialism, New Public Management and neoliberalism. Collected through a survey to all Portuguese academics, perceptions suggest a contradiction: while evidencing the deterioration of working conditions, academics maintain a positive view regarding the academic profession, evidenced by a predisposition to consider it as socially valued and worth to recommend. So, despite all changes, it seems that to Portuguese academics, working in academia is still worth, at least to some extent. The question is to know for how long. © 2018, International Association of Universities.
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Palavras-chave
Academic profession,Managerialism,New Public Management,Neoliberalism,Portugal,Working conditions
Classificação Fields of Science and Technology
- Ciências da Educação - Ciências Sociais
- Sociologia - Ciências Sociais
