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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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Changing Boards: Investigating the Effects of Centres Changing Their Specifications for English GCSE
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Malacova, Eva; Bell, John F. – Curriculum Journal, 2006
The awarding bodies and their regulator carry out research to maintain the equivalence of examination standards. However, some criticisms remain, suggesting that examination boards may be lowering standards in specifications (syllabuses) in order to attract more centres (schools or colleges). This article reports our investigations on whether…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Investigations, Educational Change, Curriculum Development
The Changing Pattern Of A Level/AS Uptake in England
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Bell, John F.; Malacova, Eva; Shannon, Mark – Curriculum Journal, 2005
One of the objectives of Curriculum 2000 is to increase the breadth of the curriculum followed by 16-19 year olds. In this paper A level and AS uptake for the years 2001 and 2002 are considered. There was considerable diversity in the uptake of A levels, with nearly 21,000 different combinations of A levels being present in 2002 A level results.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, National Curriculum, Sciences, Advanced Courses