So this is the situation at oversea, rite? how abt malaysia situation? I think our higher education still in the dilemma of shortage of phd holder lecturer.

What i knew from the ipts in malaysia, curtin universiti at Sarawak offers the most considerable salary for master and phd holders (highest than those offer in west m'sia) and their salary grade scale can be retrieved from curtin website. In ipts, you can easily get your title as associate prof and senior lecturer as compared to ipta, bt there's not much difference in salary payment, what difference them is the time allocated for lecturing and researching.