Local professors are highly competent and comfortable with their local environment dwelling in depth with constraints and challenges facing individual countries while having limited practical experience elsewhere. The International ones have enormous experience across countries with scanty expertise on locally specific operatives. Generally each option have pros and cons.
Should the young faculty member aspire for local or international faculty status?
It depends on his interest and potentials. Ability to know your strength makes you do the impossible while ability to recognize your weakness makes you source for help when necessary.
Sir,
The first day itself is challenging, since we were engaged in writing papers and thesis and hardly concentrated on interaction and teaching expectations of the students. So, when we become faculty rapport with the students seems crucial. Working locally first will help in understanding the needs of the student as per their age, competence level and areas to be worked on. Working as an international faculty comes next, your prior experience of being faculty and fusing that knowledge in cross- cultural context will bring out valuable inferences in understanding the difference and to experiment with the student population.
I hope this answer of mine might give you certain insights on your question.
Exactly, your answer is very informative.
So Pathak, you mean local experience matter for local students. However, as Universities become global, one may find himself providing assistance to students from different countries even if he/she is based at a local university. Under these environment, it would be prudent probably to start international then go local depending on the interest and expectations of each student. University faculty aspirations whether local or international may be context specific.
I hope this contributes further to the discussion
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