Comments on: Academic Salaries around the World

By: Online Colleges

Online Colleges — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 05:49:38 +0000

Offering high salaries is very important for attracting top academics around the world.

By: Eric

Eric — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 18:56:49 +0000

Thanks Barry! Changed the link

By: Barry

Barry — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:42:29 +0000

Nice post. The link to the salary comparison article didn\’t work for me, but I found this other link (with much effort):

http://www.acppu.ca/abppum/doc/salary_report.pdf

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Sat, 07 Feb 2009 02:19:53 +0000

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By: Kate

Kate — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 14:09:49 +0000

I recently came accross your blog and have been reading along. I thought I would leave my first comment. I dont know what to say except that I have enjoyed reading. Nice blog. I will keep visiting this blog very often.

Kate

http://educationonline-101.com

By: Eric

Eric — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 18:14:38 +0000

Shame on me! How could I have ignored the pleasures of curling…

By: Kris

Kris — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 16:57:41 +0000

Eric,

Yes, I agree – the is much more that counts than just salary. Plus we need to factor in all of the variation in direct and indirect benefits that are sometimes accounted for by universities (e.g., pensions) and sometimes not (e.g., access to social welfare programs and services which often vary by citizenship status), but also indirect costs (e.g., necessity to travel to see family).

From the state’s perspective, high salaries can also ground mobile faculty or mediate criticism. This article:

Clammer, John (2001) ‘The dilemmas of the over-socialized intellectual: the universities and the political and institutional dynamics of knowledge in postcolonial Singapore’, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, 2(2): 199-220.

attends to some of the latter dynamic.

My only criticism of your otherwise fine entry is why pick on Canada!! The weather is no worse than Norway or Sweden, and look what it brings with it as an added benefit – curling and ice hockey!