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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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Macqueen, Suzanne – Australian Association for Research in Education (NJ1), 2012
Recommendations arising from the "Review of Australian Higher Education" (Bradley, Noonan, Nugent & Scales, 2008) see universities aiming to increase enrolments of school leavers generally and those from low socioeconomic status backgrounds particularly. Similar trends in other countries have had mixed success. Enrolments of…
Descriptors: Nontraditional Students, Teacher Education, Enrollment, Higher Education
Reynolds, Ruth; Brown, Joanna; Bradbery, Deborah; Donnelly, Debra; Ferguson Patrick, Kate; Macqueen, Suzanne – Australian Association for Research in Education (NJ1), 2012
This study presents an overview of the issues involved when a group of teacher educators implemented a global education focus across a variety of education programs at their university. Although these problems and issues arose from the global education agenda, some of the lessons learned and problems encountered can be applied to teacher educators…
Descriptors: Global Education, Teacher Educators, Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Education
Ferguson-Patrick, Kate; Macqueen, Suzanne; Reynolds, Ruth – Australian Association for Research in Education (NJ1), 2012
National government education policies in Australia and elsewhere are concerned with preparing citizens who can engage with a global economy and be internationally competitive. For example, the preamble to The Melbourne Declaration (Ministerial Council on Education Employment Training & Youth Affairs [MCEETYA], 2008) focuses on the need for young…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Teaching Methods, Preservice Teacher Education, Teacher Education Programs