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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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Filippakou, Ourania; Salter, Brian; Tapper, Ted – Higher Education Quarterly, 2012
With particular, although not exclusive, reference to England, this article explores the appropriateness of describing higher education as a system. It has two main purposes: to explore the grounds for labelling English higher education as a system and to argue that, because this is no longer an appropriate label, a different conceptualisation is…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Interaction, English
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Filippakou, Ourania; Tapper, Ted – Higher Education Quarterly, 2008
This paper analyses the unfolding of the quality agenda in England from 1992 to the present. By using two disciplinary approaches, "political science" and "social philosophy", the article traces the recent transition from quality assurance to quality enhancement. How is this development to be explained and how significant is it? Are the concepts…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Political Science, Quality Control, Foreign Countries