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You Can't Always Get What You Want! Desired and Undesired Impacts of a New Career Development Policy
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Dusi, Davide; Huisman, Jeroen – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2021
Market rationality, neoliberal approaches and ever-increasing productivity objectives are widespread in higher education discourse and practice. Academic employment has become more uncertain as scholars are more commonly employed on non-tenured, fixed-term contracts. Research shows the resulting detrimental impact on staff well-being and health,…
Descriptors: Career Development, Foreign Countries, Personnel Policy, School Policy
The Context Changes but the Divisions Remain: The Binary Higher Education System in Flanders: The Case of Information Science.
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De Wit, Kurt; Verhoeven, Jef C. – Studies in Higher Education, 2003
Investigated whether Flanders' higher education system was predominantly unitary or binary. Surveys of students in informatics provided an account of the training, vocational, and student profiles of college and university courses. Results indicated that the profiles of college and university courses in Flanders were different. (SM)
Descriptors: Career Development, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Vocational Education
Getting the Story, Understanding the Lives: From Career Stories to Teachers' Professional Development.
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Kelchtermans, Geert – Teaching and Teacher Education, 1993
To understand teachers' professional development, career stories were collected from 10 experienced Flemish elementary teachers using semistructured biographical interviews. There were two recurring themes (striving for job stability and feelings of vulnerability). Results indicated the narrative-biographical approach is a feasible perspective for…
Descriptors: Biographies, Career Development, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries