This book explores the perceptions of academic staff and representatives of institutional leadership about the changes in academic careers and academic work experienced in recent years. It emphasizes standardisation and differentiation of academic career paths, impacts of new forms of quality management on academic work, changes in recruitment, employment and working conditions, and academics' perceptions of their professional contexts. The book demonstrates a growing diversity within the academic profession and new professional roles inhabiting a space which is neither located in the core...

L ouvrage propose d examiner l ampleur et les sources des inegalites scolaires en Suisse. Chaque auteur s attache a comprendre les conditions de la reussite et de l echec scolaire. En quoi l acces aux diplomes et la maitrise des savoirs dependent-ils de facteurs - collectifs - comme le groupe d appartenance des eleves etre un homme ou une femme, d origine sociale aisee ou modeste, de parents migrants ou non, etc. ? En quoi dependent-ils aussi des politiques educatives et des conditions d apprentissage qui en decoulent ?
Les analyses portent sur les effets des politiques educatives et...

This book explores the perceptions of academic staff and representatives of institutional leadership about the changes in academic careers and academic work experienced in recent years.