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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Conceptions of Early Leaving: A Comparison of the Views of Teaching Staff and Students
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Young, Pat; Glogowska, Margaret; Lockyer, Lesley – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2007
Recent synthesizing work on the student retention literature suggests two divergent discourses. The first is a discourse of assimilation which locates the problem in individual students' circumstances or abilities. This is challenged by an emerging discourse of adaptation. The new discourse focuses on higher education itself, proposing fundamental…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, School Holding Power, Higher Education, Interviews
Should I Go Or Should I Stay? A Study of Factors Influencing Students' Decisions on Early Leaving
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Glogowska, Margaret; Young, Pat; Lockyer, Lesley – Active Learning in Higher Education: The Journal of the Institute for Learning and Teaching, 2007
The article reports on selected findings from a multi-method research project on student retention on a nursing programme. Although the research identified some factors specific to the experiences of students on the particular programme, this article focuses on findings and recommendations of generic interest. The article compares data from…
Descriptors: School Holding Power, Academic Achievement, Student Attitudes, Student Attrition