Home 2012 29 Ottobre UK. GLI ACCADEMICI BRITANNICI I MENO SODDISFATTI D’EUROPA
UK. GLI ACCADEMICI BRITANNICI I MENO SODDISFATTI D’EUROPA PDF Stampa E-mail
British academics are by a large margin the least satisfied in Europe – and the most likely to wish they had pursued other careers – according to a survey of more than 13,000 respondents from 12 countries. This is the notable finding of a paper by Ester Ava Höhle and Ulrich Teichler, junior researcher and professor, respectively, at the University of Kassel’s International Center for Higher Education Research. On a scale ranging from 1 (very high satisfaction) to 5 (very low satisfaction), senior academics from Britain averaged 2.61, well behind top-scoring Switzerland (1.92) and Croatia (2.0), and even nearest rivals Portugal (2.33) and the Republic of Ireland (2.47). Although junior academics express less satisfaction across the Continent, the results again show those in the British to be least happy (2.77), with their peers in Croatia most satisfied (2.13). Responses to the statement "If I had to do it again, I would not become an academic" paint a similarly bleak picture: 22 percent of British senior staff and 30 percent of juniors agree. No other group across the countries polled more than 20 percent. Sixty-one percent of senior and 56 percent of junior academics describe their job as "a source of considerable personal strain."
(Fonte: M. Reisz, insidehighered.com 11-10-2012)