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The paper develops the metaphorical concept of the "concertina" career to describe ways in which academic staff, across a diversifying workforce, modulate their interactions with institutional career frameworks, which tend to be unilinear and to be characterised by detailed progression criteria and milestones. In doing this, they are guided by Internal career scripts, providing an additional dimension to the dichotomy of boundaried and boundaryless careers found in the literature. Drawing on a longitudinal study between 2017 and 2020, of forty-nine mid-career academic staff across eight UK universities, consideration is given to individuals' spatial movements, for instance, between academic activities, and professional and personal commitments; and the manipulation of timescales to accelerate or decelerate career progress in relation to opportunities and constraints. The study shows ways in which the spatial parameters of a career are being stretched in order to accommodate new forms of academic work supplementing disciplinary activity, such as online learning, employability initiatives and public engagement, as well as work-life considerations. In addition, individuals are adapting timescales to accommodate professional activities such as health practice or community outreach, as well as personal commitments such as caring responsibilities. Thus, in the concertina career, individuals expand and contract activity, as well as extending and compressing timescales. As a result, it is concluded that institutional career models do not entirely reflect the reality of career-making by individuals, which is likely to involve detours (therefore a spatial dimension) and a disruption of assumed timelines (therefore a temporal dimension). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents the author's view regarding the three management trainee schemes in higher education institutions. She states that the line managers, non-trainee scheme peers and other colleagues were not appreciating the aims and nature of the scheme. She suggests that there should be clear communication between the person with institutional responsibility, use of learning logs should encourage.

The article discusses key issues relevant to professional and career development in higher education in Great Britain. It includes an in-depth analysis of the identities and roles of professional staff in the field of higher education, as well as a discussion on the lateral movement of their careers across organizational and functional boundaries in universities and colleges.

The article discusses the issues related to professional managers in higher education in Great Britain. It mentioned that the distinctions between the academic work and the contributory functions required in higher education systems. However, the author suggested some configuration in the functions of professional managers that the managers are creating new space in the university, crossing management and academic territories and involving new forms of management.

Institutional responses to changes in the higher education environment have caused movements in the roles and identities of administrative managers in UK universities. These shifts have highlighted the problem for individuals of balancing traditional public service considerations of administration with institutional innovation and development. Administrative managers find themselves not only acting as independent arbiters, giving impartial advice on the basis of professional expertise, but also becoming involved in political judgements about institutional futures. They increasingly undertake an interpretive function between the various communities of the university and its external partners. As the boundaries of the university have become more permeable, administrative and academic management have inter-digitated, and hybrid roles have developed. In undertaking increasingly complex functions, therefore, administrative managers play a critical role in linking the academic and executive arms of governance in the university. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents information on the articles published in the current issue, including one by Paulin Hagel and Robin Shaw on a sophisticated way to understand the impact of student's universities of choice, one by Lucind Barrett and Peter Barett on workload models and one by Mohammad Salaran on research productivity.

An introduction is presented in which the editor discusses various reports within the issue on topics including the additional value to the educational process, development of research experience for both staff and students in the Philippines, and the notions of public value in the contemporary university.

An introduction to the journal is presented in which the editor discusses articles including the suggestion of John Simister regarding societal structures that continue to influence the access to university in spite of policy that widens participation, the reflection of Alice Bennion, Anna Scesa, and Ruth Williams on the lack of recognition of the needs of part-time students at national levels, and the statement of Paul Ransome regarding the respect of tensions between pedagogies.

An introduction is presented which discusses various articles within the issue on topics including a research on key influences on Chinese students' selection of British universities; and Claire Gray's review on the experience of students; and an article on actuality of European Union policy.

Focuses on the changing structures affecting higher education in Great Britain ranging from institutional to international. Reflection of the trend in the movement of staff in and out of the sector; Evidence that structures and boundaries at all levels became more fluid.

The article puts forth some concern for the academic community. The highly successful AUA conference at Keele in April 2004 saw a barnstorming plenary address from the irrepressible academic Peter Knight that looked ahead to the HE sector in 2014. Although the brilliance of his live performance does not shine through quite so vividly in print there are some nuggets. One of Peter's truisms is that roughly every three years somebody in government has a bright idea and something changes. The current bright idea is variable tuition fees, which in most unlikely fashion brought HE to the top of the British political agenda.

Editorial. Comments on the effects of expansion on the university system. Capacity for speedy and flexible responses to external opportunities; Importance of advisory, executive and political support to improve quality of administrative process; Establishment of standards for higher education sector.

Editorial. Focuses on the completion of the five years of publication of the Perspectives journal. Recognition of the efforts of Anne Lonsdale, Chairman of the Editorial Board; Commitment of the journal on the publication of materials relevant to educational administration; Projections on the market of higher education institutions.

An introduction is presented in which the editor discusses various reports within the issue on topics including the changes of academic workloads, job stress and dissatisfaction, and inter-professional teaching methods.

Editorial. Comments on the value of Perspective journal on promoting strategic and managerial option of education in Great Britain. Issue on the development of virtual higher education; Challenge to administrators for the development of an effective system; Opportunities for participation among educators and learners.