Recasting the academic workforce: Why the attractiveness of the academic profession needs to be increased and eight possible strategies for how to go about this from an Australian perspective

Higher Education

Volumn 64, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 875-889

  Coates, Hamish ^a   Goedegebuure, Leo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Academic work; Academic workforce; Workforce planning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867137608     PISSN: 00181560     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10734-012-9534-3     Document Type: Article

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