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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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Development of a Procurement Management Framework in Ghana: A New Paradigm for Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Education
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Owusu-Manu, D.; Badu, E.; Edwards, D. J. – Industry and Higher Education, 2011
Procurement in the corporate world is increasingly complex, multi-faceted and interdisciplinary. This paper explores existing knowledge specifications relating to procurement management competencies and proposes a new procurement management competency framework (PMCF) and a competency-based postgraduate programme for postgraduate students in…
Descriptors: Purchasing, Competency Based Education, Graduate Study, Business Administration Education
Education, Industry and the Knowing-Doing Gap: A Knowledge Management Perspective of Business Education
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Nicolaidis, Christos S.; Michalopoulos, George – Industry and Higher Education, 2004
This paper examines the evolutionary path of the university and its impact on the quality of education it provides to people, industry and society. The authors first analyse the (Kantian) paradigm of reason, the (German Idealists') paradigm of culture and the current dominant techno-bureaucratic paradigm of excellence. They then argue that the…
Descriptors: Business Education, Higher Education, Educational Theories, College Faculty