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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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Bourgeois, Monique; Kirby, Dale – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 2012
The significance of post-secondary education is investigated for rural Newfoundland women enrolled in undergraduate liberal arts degree programs. Data collection for this research involved comprehensive, detailed semi-structured biographical interviews with rural women studying liberal arts disciplines during the 2006-2007 academic year at…
Descriptors: Females, Liberal Arts, Rural Education, Foreign Countries
Kirby, Dale – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 2007
There is no formal mandate for or tradition of inter-sectoral collaboration between community colleges and universities in Ontario. Following a regulatory change introduced by the College of Nurses of Ontario in 1998, all Registered Nurse educational preparation was restructured to the baccalaureate degree level through province-wide adoption of a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Organizational Culture, Nursing, Nurses
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Kirby, Dale – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 2002
Critiques the Canada Millennium Scholarship Foundation's claim that recent research indicates that "Canada must move beyond its focus on student financial assistance" as a means of ensuring access to postsecondary education since "three out of four Canadian youth cite non-financial reasons to explain why those chose not to pursue postsecondary…
Descriptors: College Attendance, Educational Research, Foreign Countries, Higher Education