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V. Foreign Higher Education and Education Systems, International Relations, Bilateral Relations
B. Essays, Commentaries, Statements
Author TAVARES, Orlanda (LANCA, Vasco; AMARAL, Alberto)
Title Academic inbreeding in Portugal : does insularity play a role? / Orlanda Tavares, Vasco Lanca and Alberto Amaral
Publication year 2017
Source/Footnote In: Higher education policy. - 30 (2017) 3, S. 381 - 399
Inventory number 45774
Keywords Ausland : Portugal : Hochschulwesen allgemein
Abstract A recent study has highlighted the high level of inbreeding in Portuguese academia, relating this phenomenon with the age of the institution and with the core academic values of different disciplinary areas. Defining academic inbreeding as the recruitment of academics by the same institution that awarded their PhD, this study aims to extend the research to Portuguese universities of peripheral areas affected by insularity which might increase the levels of inbreeding. Resorting to a database provided by the national Agency for Assessment and Accreditation of Higher Education (A3ES), the levels of inbreeding in universities of peripheral areas, such as the Portuguese islands and other second tier urban centres in the hinterland of the country, and in different disciplinary areas are analysed and compared with universities located in larger and coastal urban centres. Although overall results do not support a major influence of insularity in inbreeding, since the inbreeding levels were masked by disparities in the development stage of disciplines, when the age of the first PhD awarded in different disciplinary areas was taken into account, an increasing effect of insularity in academic inbreeding was noted.(HRK / Abstract übernommen)