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Type: | Journal article |
Title: | Some emerging demographic issues on Australia's teaching academic workforce |
Author: | Hugo, G. |
Citation: | Higher Education Policy, 2005; 18(3):207-229 |
Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. |
Issue Date: | 2005 |
ISSN: | 0952-8733 1740-3863 |
Statement of Responsibility: | Graeme Hugo |
Abstract: | Like other OECD nations, Australia is facing a crisis in the academic staff of its universities over the next two decades. This is a function of several factors, among which demographic elements are especially significant. The academic workforce of Australia is characterized by three distinct demographic features — age heaping, a concentration in older ages, and gender imbalance. The first two are a result of rapid expansion in the late 1960s and 1970s when the numbers of students expanded exponentially with the passage of the post-war baby boom cohorts into the university entrance ages and greatly increased participation rates. This, together with increases in student/staff ratios and perhaps the increased attractiveness of alternative vocations, has created a dearth of young academics. The impending and actual retirement of the bulge means that there will be a tightening of the academic labor market and an increase in demand for university staff unprecedented for three decades. This will occur in a context where the number of Australian graduates moving to foreign universities is increasing rapidly as a result of further internationalization of the labor market. Some of the challenges and opportunities that this presents are discussed. |
Description: | © Palgrave Macmillan |
DOI: | 10.1057/palgrave.hep.8300084 |
Published version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.hep.8300084 |
Appears in Collections: | Aurora harvest 6 Australian Population and Migration Research Centre publications Geography, Environment and Population publications |
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