2003:3 R
Careers through promotion and recruitment: Final report
This is the final report of a project dealing with the ‘promotion reform,´ which began in 2000. It accounts for the three main issues and observations that have been presented in the three preliminary reports:
- Careers through promotion and recruitment: preliminary report I. National Agency for Higher Education (Report 2001:7 R).
- The 1999 promotion reform: How did things turn out? Preliminary report II . National Agency for Higher Education (Report 2002:2 R).
- The 1999 promotion reform: economic effects: preliminary report III. National Agency for Higher Education (Report 2002:33 R).
The main findings are:
- That the number of professors has risen and that the government´s goal of doubling the number of professors with the next few years is attainable
- That the number of junior lecturers with doctoral degrees has declined considerably and that few junior lecturers without doctoral degrees have been promoted
- That promoted professors retain their previous duties to a large extent and that the rise in their salaries in connection with promotion has been very modest
- That the differences in working conditions and other benefits between promoted professors and professors appointed on a competitive basis do not exist, for instance, in Norway or the United Kingdom
- That teaching qualifications have ended up playing an important role for promotion while at the same time stringent requirements still apply with regard to academic qualifications. Extremely good qualifications in one of these areas have not been allowed to compensate for deficiencies in the other.
- That on the whole the reform has not led to any major changes in the ratio of men and women professors.
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