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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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Towards a Typology of Debt Attitudes among Contemporary Young UK Undergraduates
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Harrison, Neil; Chudry, Farooq; Waller, Richard; Hatt, Sue – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2015
As the UK sits on the verge of a major change in the financing of both universities and students, this study seeks to capture and analyse attitudes to money, borrowing and debt among contemporary young undergraduates. It reports findings from a qualitative study of 62 individuals in the second term of their first year at university, these being…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, Debt (Financial)
Overactive, Overwrought or Overdrawn? The Role of Personality in Undergraduate Financial Knowledge, Decision-Making and Debt
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Harrison, Neil; Chudry, Farooq – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2011
The financial situation of undergraduate students remains a high-profile issue within the UK higher education sector, not least due to its perceived relationship with retention, well-being and success. This article probes this question from a new direction, using concepts and approaches from the field of applied psychology to examine how students…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Money Management, Personality, Anxiety