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Macedonian Academic Profession in Search of Identity: Transition Never Ending<br>Paper AbstractThe context of Macedonian higher education has changed dramatically in the last fifteen years. The rapid increase in the number of public and private institutions, while diversifying the offers of higher education degrees in the country, did not provide better quality. The academic staff themselves produce rather small research outputs, and contribute little to the society’s development. Likewise, the chronic underfinancing of higher education and research, and an underdeveloped system of quality assurance, as well as the growing expectations for relevance and internationalization, put additional pressure on Macedonian academia. This paper presents an original empirical study on academic staff, and examines how they perceive changes in the environment of the academic profession, and how changes in their working conditions potentially influence their academic identity and wellbeing. These results are compared to European data and show that academic staff perceive deterioration in their working conditions. This makes the academic profession stressful and unattractive, and results in lower levels of overall academic wellbeing, as well as in threatened academic identity amongst the staff. Consequently, we could expect further decreases in motivation, work ethic and productivity in the academic profession, as well as an increase in the desire of academics to leave the country.<br>寻求身份认同的马其顿学术职业：永无止境的转型 论文摘要 近十五年来，马其顿高等教育领域的整体格局发生了翻天覆地的变化。公立与私立高等教育机构数量的快速增长，虽丰富了本国高等教育学位的供给类型，但并未带来教学质量的提升。学术人员自身的研究成果产出微薄，对社会发展的贡献亦极为有限。同样，高等教育与科研领域长期存在的经费不足、质量保障体系不完善，加之社会对学术相关性与国际化程度日益增长的期待，都给马其顿学术界带来了额外压力。本研究针对马其顿学术人员开展了一项原创性实证调研，旨在探析其对学术职业环境变迁的感知，以及工作条件变化如何潜在影响其学术身份认同与职业福祉。将本次调研结果与欧洲相关数据对比后发现，马其顿学术人员普遍认为自身工作条件有所恶化。这使得学术职业充满压力且缺乏吸引力，进而导致整体学术福祉水平下降，同时也威胁到学术人员的身份认同。据此可以预见，学术职业领域的工作动机、职业伦理与生产力将进一步下滑，同时学术人员的出国任职意愿也会随之增强。