Open AccessFaculty Contracts in Post-Soviet Countries
Author(s) -
Gregory Androushchak,
Maria Yudkevich
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
international higher education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2372-4501
pISSN - 1084-0613
DOI - 10.6017/ihe.2012.68.8628
Subject(s) - political science , element (criminal law) , core (optical fiber) , developing country , economic growth , development economics , economics , law , engineering , telecommunications
For decades, universities in Soviet countries were governed, evaluated, and financed according to the same principles. The current system is not like this former one. However, faculty contractsa core element in any universitystill participate much in common. While this article is based on detailed data on the academic profession in Armenia, Kazakhstan, Latvia, and Russia, the described trends are, to some extent, common for all post-Soviet countries.