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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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Walsh, John – Irish Educational Studies, 2014
This paper offers a historical perspective on government policies for the rationalisation of higher education (HE) in Ireland through a critical re-appraisal of the initiative for "merger" of Trinity College and University College Dublin. The initiative launched by Donogh O'Malley in 1967 was the first significant attempt by an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Catholics, Educational History, Clergy
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Loxley, Andrew; Seery, Aidan; Walsh, John – Irish Educational Studies, 2014
Thirty years after the publication of "Investment in Education," Patrick Clancy wrote that the report represented "the" foundation document of education' in the era since the introduction of economic planning in the late 1950s. This paper considers the importance of the report in disseminating theories of human capital…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Investment, Human Capital, Educational Policy
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Walsh, John – Irish Educational Studies, 2011
The upgrading of higher technical education which began in the 1960s marked the most influential intervention by the Irish government in the third-level sector since the establishment of the independent Irish state. A series of reforming initiatives extended educational opportunity and transformed the status of technical education at higher level.…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Educational Opportunities, Technical Education