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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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Cosser, Michael; Nenweli, Sekinah – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2014
A 2010 paper published in "Higher Education" investigated the relationship between South African Grade 12 students' programme preferences in 2001 for study in higher education, student enrolment in higher education programmes in 2002, and student graduations in 2006, devising what the author dubbed a preference-enrolment-graduation…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preferences, Enrollment, Graduation
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Davies, Peter; Mangan, Jean; Hughes, Amanda – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2009
This paper examines differences between the decision-making of marginal and nonmarginal students about participation in higher education (HE). We distinguish between two kinds of marginality: being "borderline" on account of prior achievements in school and being "unsure" after taking prior achievement into account. We identify a significant…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Knowledge Level, Socioeconomic Background, Financial Support