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In the land of the guru, the position of the teacher has for a long time been regarded with ambivalence. Traditionally, teachers were accorded the highest esteem and even venerated as a demigod (deva), but their economic status was low and they were poor. This was also reflected in the dissonance between the high education qualifications expected of teachers in higher education institutions and the low remuneration. However, as a result of the competing demands for talent in the knowledge economy, occasioned by globalization and the best talent turning away from the academic profession, the salaries of teachers have now been upwardly revised—to an extent that was unthinkable a decade back (Jayaram 2003). The professoriate is now comfortably placed; and the academic profession, it is hoped, will again become attractive in the employment market.
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Jayaram, N. (2013). India: Streamlining the Academic Profession for a Knowledge Economy. In: Altbach, P.G., Androushchak, G., Kuzminov, Y., Yudkevich, M., Reisberg, L. (eds) The Global Future of Higher Education and the Academic Profession. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230369795_4
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