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This chapter provides an analysis and interpretation of the key changes in higher education and their impact on teaching and research in the United Kingdom, and in particular England, between the two international surveys of the academic profession, in 1992 and 2007. It reports on the relevant responses to both surveys. It interprets the categorisation of the UK (by this book’s editors) as achieving a balance between teaching and research and concludes that the descriptions of the core activities of higher education institutions may be breaking down, requiring a reconceptualisation of academic work in the twenty-first century.
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Academics working in polytechnics did not have tenure. However, there is some debate about whether tenure remained in practice, given universities’ reluctance to make compulsory redundancies (Fulton and Holland 2001).
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However, there remains the possibility of identifying different patterns of institution through further analysis of the CAP UK data.
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Locke, W. (2014). Teaching and Research in English Higher Education: The Fragmentation, Diversification and Reorganisation of Academic Work, 1992–2007. In: Shin, J., Arimoto, A., Cummings, W., Teichler, U. (eds) Teaching and Research in Contemporary Higher Education. The Changing Academy – The Changing Academic Profession in International Comparative Perspective, vol 9. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6830-7_17
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