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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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Strategic Directions in New Zealand's Tertiary Education Market
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Abbott, Malcolm – International Journal of Training Research, 2005
The purpose of this paper is to examine the different ways in which the polytechnics in Auckland in New Zealand have changed their growth strategies since they were given a degree of autonomy in 1990. Since then the three institutions have followed similar, but not entirely identical strategies, which has meant that the three institutions have…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Postsecondary Education, Technical Education, Educational Change
The Cost Efficiency New Zealand's Polytechnics
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Abbott, Malcolm; Doucouliagos, Hristos – International Journal of Training Research, 2004
In New Zealand the most important institutions that are responsible for the delivery of vocational education and training programs are the government owned and operated tertiary education institutions known as polytechnics. The New Zealand polytechnics deliver programs at the certificate, diploma and degree level. During the course of the 1990s,…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Competition, Foreign Countries, Unit Costs