Based on a case study approach in twelve countries, analyses and compares current practices and trends in employment relationships in higher education.

Compares conditions of academic tenure and its functional equivalent in post secondary education in selected Anglo-American countries and in countries governed by civil-service regimes. Draws conclusions regarding nomination and dismissal, the case of distant-study teaching, effects of brain...

Looks at the extent of and policy responses to the problem of labour shortage in the economies of Japan, Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong and Malaysia.