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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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Parry, Gareth – Higher Education Quarterly, 2013
The governance of higher education in colleges and college sectors that offer other types of education and training is distinctive in four main respects. First, governance structures are frequently separate and different for higher education and for other segments of tertiary education. Second, the size and scope of the higher-level education…
Descriptors: Governance, Higher Education, Colleges, Institutional Characteristics
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Parry, Gareth – Higher Education Quarterly, 2009
England has a two-sector system of higher education and further education. Shaped by legislation in 1988 and 1992, the architecture of this system was intended to concentrate each type of education in separate institutions and separate sectors. In recognition of these different missions, each territory came under different funding and regulatory…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, Adult Education, Foreign Countries, Public Policy
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Parry, Gareth – Higher Education Quarterly, 2006
The pattern of expansion that brought mass characteristics to English higher education is very different from that intended to achieve near-universal access by the end of the present decade. The spectacular growth of the late 1980s and early 1990s was neither projected nor planned, with important consequences for the shape of the English system.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Educational Policy, Undergraduate Study