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Pitfalls and Exclusions in Academic Recruitment

Mahendran Thiruvarangan A public university relies on its teachers in fulfilling its responsibilities to the wider community. While teaching remains the chief responsibility of the academic staff, they also conduct research and play a central role in keeping the university a vibrant space where they and students can freely participate in conversations that concern not […]

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Recruiting academics to state universities – beset by archaic selection processes?  

Kaushalya Perera Time has, by and large, stood still in the business of academic staff recruitment to state universities. Qualifications have proliferated and evolved to be more interdisciplinary, but our selection processes and evaluation criteria are unchanged since at least the late 1990s. But before I delve into the problems, I describe the existing processes

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