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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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An Application of Elementary Functions to a Resource Allocation Problem
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Nillsen, Rodney – Australian Senior Mathematics Journal, 2008
In 1998, the West Report on tertiary education considered proposals for changing the proportion of funds given to universities on the basis of two criteria: research and teaching. An article by David Phillips, a former Head of the Higher Education Division of the Department of Employment, Education, Training and Youth Affairs, on the consequences…
Descriptors: Resource Allocation, Financial Support, Higher Education, Foreign Countries
An Application of Quadratic Functions to Australian Government Policy on Funding Schools
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Nillsen, Rodney – Australian Senior Mathematics Journal, 2007
In the "Sydney Morning Herald" of 23 March 2005, Ross Gittins argued that the funding arrangements for private schools positively encourage parents to move their children from the state system. The then Federal Minister for Education, Dr Brendan Nelson, in a letter to the "Herald" of 25-27 March, responded by saying that 68% of all school pupils…
Descriptors: Public Policy, Private Schools, Educational Finance, Foreign Countries