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AY Higher Education 41: 485-487, 2001. CONTENTS Vol. 41 Vol. 41, Nos. 1-2, January—March 2001 Special Issue on the Changing Academic Workplace: Comparative Perspectives Guest editors: Philip G. Altbach & Richard Chait Introduction Philip G. Altbach & Richard Chait A chair system in transition: Appointments, promotions, and gate- keeping in German higher education Jiirgen Enders The academic profession in Britain: A study in the failure to adapt to change Michael Shattock French academics: Between the professions and the civil service Thierry Chevaillier Pressures and prospects facing the academic profession in the Netherlands Egbert de Weert 77-101 Italian university professors in transition Roberto Moscati 103-129 The academic profession in Spain: Between the civil service and the market José-Ginés Mora Higher education and academic staff in a period of policy and system change Berit Askling 157-181 486 CONTENTS VOL. 41 The US academic profession: Key policy challenges James P. Honan and Damtew Teferra 183-203 Academic freedom: International realities and challenges Philip G. Altbach 205-219 Vol. 41, No. 3, April 2001 The reflective institution: Assuring and enhancing the quality of teaching and learning John Biggs Cognitive development and student approaches to learning: An investigation of Perry’s theory with Chinese and U.S. university students Li-fang Zhang and David Watkins 239-261 Questioning to learn and learning to question: Structure and function of problem-based learning scenarios in environmental science education Madeleine Abrandt Dahlgren and Gunilla Oberg 263-282 An assessment of the academic and social integration as perceived by the students in the University of Papua New Guinea Muhammad Abdul Mannan 283-298 Revisiting academics’ beliefs about teaching and learning Katherine Samuelowicz and John D. Bain 299-325 The impact of major on college persistence among freshmen Karen Leppel 327-342 ILIAD Book review 343-344 CONTENTS VOL. 41 CONTENTS Vol. 41, No. 4, June 2001 Special Section: Perspectives on Comparative Higher Education Guest editor: Gary D. Rhoades Introduction to special section: “Perspectives on comparative higher education" Gary Rhoades The autonomy of knowledge and the decline of the subject: Post- modernism and the reformulation of the university William G. Tierney Gender studies: A global perspective of their evolution contribu- tion, and challenges to comparative higher education Nelly P. Stromquist 373-387 Problems in comparative higher education: Political economy, political sociology and postmodernism Sheila Slaughter 389-412 Regular Section Quality issues in the internationalisation of higher education Dirk van Damme 415-441 A review of higher education reform in modern Japan 443-470 Paul Doyon 471-472 Book review 473-480 Instructions for authors 481 Author Index 483-484 Subject Index Volume Contents 485-487