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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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Gibbs, Paul; Dean, Aftab – Higher Education Quarterly, 2014
This paper investigates whether students' personal happiness is different from student satisfaction and considers if this may have consequences for university policy and management. It does this by comparing happiness and satisfaction in two cohorts of students from two United Kingdom universities. One is a distinctive research university and…
Descriptors: College Students, Satisfaction, Student Attitudes, Psychological Patterns
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Gibbs, Paul; Costley, Carol – Higher Education Quarterly, 2012
The identity of the worker foregrounds the development of higher education rather than the other way around. It is developed in contrast to the lack of higher education innovation in the recent UK Government White Paper on Higher Education and in the educational philosophy of Tawney and the neo-pragmaticism of Rorty. The proposal is that higher…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Philosophy, Compulsory Education, Employment