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

Introduction : building "educational hobo jungles"? -- Soft in the middle : current challenges in higher education -- The surprising story of for-profit and nontraditional higher education in America -- Missions : who are you? -- Junkyard dogs : the culture and rhetoric of for-profits --...

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...