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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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Jepsen, Denise Mary; Neumann, Ruth – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2010
Little is known of how and when undergraduate students decide to progress to postgraduate studies. This study examined the effect of a single semester on intentions to undertake postgraduate study. The study was conducted twice in two years using approximately 120 students enrolled in a third year "Behaviour in Organisations" unit at a…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Graduate Study, Intention, Student Educational Objectives
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Rodwell, John; Neumann, Ruth – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2008
Federal government changes to the funding of doctoral students have focused the attention of university management on their completion rates. The aims of this paper are to inform the allocation of institutional resources in a manner that improves the likelihood of timely doctoral completions and to highlight a process that can also be used for…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Scoring, Federal Government, Pragmatics
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Neumann, Ruth – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2005
For more than a decade professional doctorates in Australia have continued to grow and diversify across a broadening array of disciplines. An empirical study of "The Doctoral Education Experience" in Australian universities included an examination of doctoral experiences in departments offering both PhD and professional doctorates. This paper…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Policy, Doctoral Programs, Doctoral Degrees