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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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Dixon, Pauline; Tooley, James – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2012
This article provides an update on our earlier paper on the introduction by the Kenyan government in 2003 of free primary education (FPE), and its impact on low-fee private schools. First, published papers that have used our contribution as a springboard for discussion are critically reviewed. The argument and supporting evidence that the poor are…
Descriptors: Evidence, Economically Disadvantaged, Case Studies, Longitudinal Studies
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Tooley, James; Dixon, Pauline; Stanfield, James – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2008
Free primary education (FPE) is widely assumed to be required to ensure that the poor gain enrolment. After the introduction of FPE (from January 2003) in Kenyan schools, huge increases in enrolment were officially reported. However, our research, conducted 10 months after the introduction of FPE in and around the informal settlement of Kibera,…
Descriptors: Private Schools, Private Sector, Primary Education, Focus Groups
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Tooley, James – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2005
The Grant-in-Aid (GIA) higher education sector in Karnataka, India, is examined as an example of a well-established public-private partnership (PPP). Interviews with senior officials in the Government of Karnataka, and in two contrasting Regions, centred around Gulbarga and Mysore, together with visits to GIA and private-unaided (PUA) colleges…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Money Management, Theory Practice Relationship, Foreign Countries