The Academic Profession in Germany

Teichler, Ulrich; Höhle, Ester Ava; Jacob, Anna Katharina

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-45844-1_7

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“…Switzerland has been notably successful in establishing a more consensual and network-based governance model within higher education, striking a balance between state intervention, robust managerialism, and self-governance (Teichler and Höhle, 2013 [405]; Bleiklie et al, 2011[415]). This approach is ingrained in the current higher education system management, which prioritises co-operation across institutions, their representation, and both federal and cantonal governments (Eurydice, 2022[416]).…”

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The state of academic careers in OECD countries

2024

OECD Education Policy Perspectives

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The evidence review examines the state of academic careers in higher education systems in OECD countries, providing an overview of available data, research evidence and examples of policy and practice. The variety of academic career models in place across OECD countries makes international comparison challenging, but certain prevalent trends nevertheless emerge.Key concerns for academics and policy makers include the working conditions of academics, an increasing reliance on precarious and casual contracts, high workloads and negative impacts on worklife balance. Career incentives currently tend to focus on -and favour -research output, often sidelining teaching, engagement, and other duties. Initial academic training generally fails to prepare academics comprehensively for their roles, and more continuous professional learning will likely be needed to support academics to exploit the potential of increasingly digitalised learning environments. Although flexibility in academic career paths has been promoted in some higher education systems, academics tend to remain in academia, with limited inter-sectoral mobility. The review highlights the persistent under-representation of -and challenges confronting -women and marginalised groups in academia. Despite the growth of international mobility and collaboration, the participation of academics in internalisation activities varies considerably within and between institutions and across higher education systems. Furthermore, a troubling decline in academic freedom over the past decade raises substantial concerns.

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2024

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“…Despite the synergies between research and teaching in principle, the policies of higher education institutions may promote research at the expense of teaching. 1 As a result, traditional academics at such institutions generally tend to focus more on research and economize on teaching and related activities, such as student tutoring, mentoring, and other activities that may "steal time" from research (Cadez et al, 2017;Teichler, 2017). This implies the existence of a negative correlation between research and teaching for some scholars, at least in terms of workload, leading to considerations such as "Those who do more teaching have less time for research" and vice versa.…”

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The importance of risk and insurance teaching within the ARIA mission

Medders,

Epermanis,

Avila

et al. 2023

Risk Manage Insurance Review

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The American Risk and Insurance Association (ARIA) is a scholarly association devoted to the study of and promotion of risk and insurance economics and has a history of innovative scholarship in fields that are vital to economic development and resiliency throughout the world. Association members have an equally important mission and history of passing along important knowledge to students and the risk professions. The Risk and Insurance Teaching Society (RITS) was established as part of the pedagogical and academic program roles of ARIA. This paper outlines the importance of pedagogy within business higher education and more specifically within the academic discipline of risk and insurance and the increasing role that RITS plays in pedagogical innovation and idea sharing among risk and insurance academics.

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Lost in hybridity? About dilemmas endangering meaningful tourism education at German universities of applied sciences

Rundshagen

Gronau

2022

Zeitschrift Für Tourismuswissenschaft

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The contribution at hand sheds light on dramatically mounting tensions that academic tourism education in Germany is facing within the context of applied science universities. Drawing on the concept of organizational hybridity, we distil two dilemmas resulting from respectively incongruent expectation sets. Firstly, a spatial hybridity dilemma results from opposing missions of regional development and embeddedness versus internationalization prescriptions and efforts. Secondly, there is an ideational hybridity dilemma resulting from imperatives to serve employment markets versus academic purposes of serving social and scientific ideals. Based on a tourism program case from Northern Germany we highlight how a mélange of diverse, partly obscure and increasingly conflicting missions as well as largely inflated and for the most part incongruent stakeholder expectations threaten to tear the institution apart and to lead tourism education onto pathways where it could lose its bearings. We summarize our three major concerns of academics drifting off the course of integrity out of desperation resulting from overwhelming pressures, impoverished learning experience for our student constituencies and impoverishment of research in an era where we need meaningful research more than ever in tourism and beyond. We thus contribute to the debate about the future of tourism education in academia.

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The Academic Profession in Germany

Cited by 4 publications

References 7 publications

The state of academic careers in OECD countries

The state of academic careers in OECD countries

The importance of risk and insurance teaching within the ARIA mission

Lost in hybridity? About dilemmas endangering meaningful tourism education at German universities of applied sciences

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