The current study sought to explore potential candidates' (PCs') interest in becoming primary school principals in the towns bordering Addis Ababa in Ethiopia's Oromia Regional State. The study adopted an interpretive phenomenological design. Participants in the study were ten purposively selected PCs and educational officials. The data were…

This study aims at analyzing the gender gap in salaries observed in Spanish public universities. It focuses on the glass ceiling problem and quantifies its importance in the gender earnings gap. This article shows that most of the gender earnings gap observed among the faculty of the University of Murcia is due to a glass ceiling problem in…

Teacher job satisfaction is the degree to which employees like or dislike their profession; they are satisfied when they have positive attitudes and feelings towards their job. Many studies were conducted in developing and developed countries, but unfortunately, studies focusing on teacher job satisfaction in the Afghan context are very limited.…

Colleges and universities in the United States have embraced the "gig" economy with use of non-tenure track and part-time faculty. However, much of the work on job satisfaction in academia focuses on tenure-line professors. This study seeks to answer the question of whether adjunct faculty look more like independent gig workers or…

The purpose of this study was to assess teachers' morale competence in the secondary school of Kersa woreda. To achieve this objective, the researchers used a cross-sectional survey research design. The study was carried out on 110 secondary school teachers who were teaching grade nine. A questionnaire and an interview were used to collect data.…

This study aims to shed light on the inherent natures of academic life at private higher education institutions in Cambodia in light of neoliberal education discourse. A phenomenological approach was adopted and a series of systematic in-depth interviews was used as the main method for data collection about life of academics. The overall anecdotes…

This study encompasses the history, definition, and implementation of merit pay to identify the variables that affect student achievement and teacher retention. By reviewing 13 studies on American education relevant to the policy, this study aims to determine how merit pay influenced student achievement and teacher retention rates. In the United…

Based on a uniquely matched firm-worker panel dataset for 2013 and 2015, this study is the first to consider the effect of education on employee benefits in terms of wages and quality of employment. We find that only college or university education has a positive influence on employee wages when taking into account worker characteristics alone but…

To provide an appropriate incentive for teaching profession, the important questions are "how much should we pay?" and "which factors influence potential teachers' decision the most?" This research evaluates the factors that discourage and encourage potential teachers to join the profession in Cambodia and Laos by applying a…