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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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Kupfer, Antonia – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2008
The increasing research on international organisations' education policy lacks analyses of the relation between international organisations and nation states. This paper aims to analyse the power of nation states in international education policy. Focusing on the new degree system in higher education in Europe, partly from Foucault's…
Descriptors: Higher Education, International Education, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy
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Robson, Jocelyn; Bailey, Bill; Mendick, Heather – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2008
This article investigates the experience of individual learners who have been allocated learning support in the further education system in England. The particular focus is on interviewees' constructions of their emotional and psychic experiences. Through the adoption of a psycho-social perspective, learners' tendency to "idealise" their learning…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Foreign Countries, Interviews, Student Personnel Services
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Gunter, Helen; Forrester, Gillian – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2008
We draw on empirical data and theorising that focuses on the relationship between the state, public policy and knowledge in the construction and configuration of school leadership under New Labour from 1997. Specifically we show how a school leadership policy network comprises people in different locations who operate as policy entrepreneurs in…
Descriptors: Public Policy, Leadership, Principals, Educational History