Table of Figures 5 // Codes 7 // Country codes 7 // Statistical codes 7 // Main Findings 9 // Introduction 13 // Chapter 1: Academic Staff in a Changing Higher Education Landscape 17 // 1.1. Understanding academic staff 17 // 1.2. Governance and human resource planning 24 // Conclusions 27 // Chapter 2: Academics and their Qualifications 29 // 2.1. Doctoral degree: a starting point of an academic career? 29 // 2.2. Qualification requirements within academic careers 37 // Conclusions 41 // Chapter 3: The Recruitment of Academic Staff 43 // 3.1. Top-level authorities’ legislation on recruitment of academic staff 44 // 3.2. Recruitment methods 47 // 3.3. Recruitment process 50 // 3.4. Equal opportunities 51 // 3.5. Recruitment management 57 // Conclusions 59 // Chapter 4: Employment and Working Conditions in Academia 61 // 4.1. Employment conditions in academia 61 // 4.2. Duties and working time of academic staff 68 // 4.3. Remuneration of academic staff 73 // 4.4. Continuing professional development (CPD) of academic staff 77 // 4.5. Monitoring of employment and working conditions in academia 81 // Conclusions 83 // Chapter 5: Quality Assurance and Evaluation of Academic Staff 85 // 5.1. The European context for quality assurance 85 // 5.2. External quality assurance 86 // 5.3. Individual evaluation of academic staff 91 // Conclusions 95 //
Chapter 6: Internationalisation and Staff Mobility 97 // 6.1. Top-level strategies for the internationalisation of higher education 97 // 6.2. Top-level monitoring of staff mobility 103 // 6.3. Top-level support for specific actions related to internationalisation 105 // Conclusions 106 // Annexes 107 // Annex 1: National diagrams of academic staff categories 107 // Sources of statistical data included in national diagrams 145 // Annex 2: Examples of large-scale programmes for academic staff mobility 148 // References 155 // Glossary 159 // Acknowledgements 163