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UNIVERSITY LEADERS in Australia are worried about the aging of the country's faculty and the limited opportunities for young scholars to enter the academic work force.
Over the past five years, universities here have witnessed a sharp decline in resignations and retirements by senior academics.
The nation's severe and prolonged recession has reduced prospects for work outside higher education and, combined with substantial salary increases in the early 1990s, seems to have deterred many academics from leaving their campus jobs.
The recent abolition by state governments of compulsory retirement at age 65 is expected to reduce staff turnover further, as tenured faculty members stay on in what has become for many...