Recruitment And Retention of Academic Staff In Higher Education


Type of Activity:

Book

Title:

Recruitment And Retention of Academic Staff In Higher Education

NIESR Author 1:

Hilary Metcalf

NIESR Author 2:

Heather Rolfe

NIESR Author 3:

Philip Stevens

NIESR Author 4:

Martin Weale

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Date:

Thursday, 28th July, 2005

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Keywords:

pay satisfaction discrimination progression gender ethnicity age

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Notes / Summary / Abstract:

Department for Education and Skills Research Report RR658

The increasing prominence of recruitment and retention problems combined with a long-standing concern that the sector faces a ‘retirement bulge’ – as academics from the 1960s expansion reach retirement – has lead to concern about the adequacy of the future supply of academics. This study was designed to identify the factors which lead to individuals entering and leaving academic employment in the English Higher Education sector.

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