- Title
- Academics under pressure : Fear and loathing in finnish universities?
- Creator
- Aarrevaara, Timo; Dobson, Ian
- Date
- 2015
- Type
- Text; Book chapter
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/98750
- Identifier
- vital:10281
- Identifier
-
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16080-1_11
- Identifier
- ISBN:9783319160801
- Abstract
- This chapter presents an examination of Finnish university academics and the pressures they encounter in the rapidly changing academic milieu. In addition to the evolution all societies are subject to, staff in Finnish universities has had to adjust to a Universities Act that came into force from 2010, and this ushered in fundamental changes in governance arrangements and confirmed a pattern of increasing managerialism. Evidence indicates that many academics feel little capacity to influence decision making, and some are trapped in a cycle of precarious employment by oft-renegotiated short contracts. In addition, universities find themselves in competition with other labour market segments for highly qualified knowledge workers, a factor which has the capacity to have an impact on universities and their academic workforce. Using quantitative data from the Changing Academic Profession survey and augmenting this with qualitative data from the EUROAC project, this chapter examines Finnish university academics perceptions of academic life in the twenty-first century. © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015.
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Relation
- Forming, Recruiting and Managing the Academic Profession p. 211-223
- Rights
- Copyright © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- Academics; Finnish universities
- Reviewed
- Hits: 3367
- Visitors: 3158
- Downloads: 9
| Thumbnail | File | Description | Size | Format |
|---|