Considerations On Recruiting And Retaining University Teachers

Recruiting and retaining high-quality teachers in rural areas.

In examining recruitment and retention of teachers in rural areas, David Monk begins by noting the numerous possible characteristics of rural communities--small size, sparse settlement, distance from population concentrations, and an economic reliance on agricultural industries that are increasingly using seasonal and immigrant workers to minimize labor costs. Many, though not all, rural areas,...

Recruiting Retaining Advancing

This paper focuses on implementing a multi-agent simulation using distributed Linux cluster for swarm intelligence between multiple agents in the context of a battlefield or hostile area scenario. Different aspects from several different papers can provide ways in which to develop an autonomous agent algorithm. An autonomous agent algorithm will have the group of individual worker agents collec...

Recruiting and Retaining a More Diverse Workforce

Recruiting and Retaining Teachers in the UK: An Analysis of Graduate Occupation Choice from the 1960s to the 1990s

This paper examines the market for teachers in the UK from 1960 to the mid 1990s using graduate cohort data from 5 separate cohorts. The use of this data allows us to simulate the effect of possible teacher pay rises over time. We find that relative wages in teaching compared to alternative professions have a significant impact on the likelihood of graduates choosing to teach, although the impa...

The importance of mentoring in recruiting and retaining junior faculty.