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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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Brijlal, Pradeep; Enow, Samuel; Isaacs, Eslyn B. H. – Industry and Higher Education, 2014
This paper reports on an investigation of financial management practices used by small, medium-sized and micro-enterprises (SMMEs) in South Africa. It was found that more than half the SMMEs examined use external accounting staff to prepare accounting reports and more than 60% rely on external accounting staff to interpret and use accounting…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Money Management, Accounting, Small Businesses
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Brijlal, Pradeep; Brijlal, Priscilla – Industry and Higher Education, 2013
An investigation of the intentions and knowledge of entrepreneurship of final-year university dentistry students is reported, with particular regard to the factors of gender and race. A questionnaire survey was used with final-year dentistry students, over two years, at the University of the Western Cape in South Africa. The findings show that…
Descriptors: Dental Schools, Dentistry, Foreign Countries, Entrepreneurship
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Peters, Ricardo M.; Brijlal, Pradeep – Industry and Higher Education, 2011
The small, medium and micro enterprise (SMME) sector has been widely recognized as an engine of economic growth in South Africa. The implementation of the National Small Business Strategy (NSBS) in 1995 established important objectives for the sector to address such problems as lack of access to markets and procurement, lack of access to finance…
Descriptors: Economic Progress, Student Attitudes, Access to Information, Foreign Countries