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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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Berends, Willem – Christian Higher Education, 2012
Australia has no Christian universities or Christian liberal arts colleges other than Australian Catholic University, which has six campuses in five cities. This paper examines one long-term attempt to set up such an institution, which ended in the project being abandoned for lack of progress. Some likely reasons for failure are identified in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Postsecondary Education, Educational History, Postsecondary Education as a Field of Study
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Sands, Edward Wilfrid; Berends, Willem – Christian Higher Education, 2012
This paper examines the foundation and development of universities in Australia and New Zealand and demonstrates how these universities were established on a secular basis. Educators from other continents with a mainly Christian history are often surprised that there is so little evidence of Christian input into the university sector in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Postsecondary Education, Educational History, Postsecondary Education as a Field of Study