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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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Increasing Participation of Rural and Regional Students in Higher Education
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Fleming, Michele J.; Grace, Diana M. – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2014
Regional and rural students in Australia face unique challenges when aspiring to higher education. These challenges reflect systematic disadvantage experienced by rural and regional populations as a whole. In an effort to redress these inequities, and aided by the Australian Government's Higher Education Participation and Partnerships Program…
Descriptors: Student Participation, Rural Areas, Academic Aspiration, Gender Differences
Institutional Determinants of American Undergraduate Student Debt
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Craig, J. Dean; Raisanen, Samuel R. – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2014
Between 2005 and 2013, student loan debt in the US increased at a rate of 13.3 per cent per annum. This rise in collegiate student debt has become the focus of any number of new proposals and policies at both the state and national levels. While considering broad policies to stem this rising tide are admirable, they do little to help a graduating…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Debt (Financial), Correlation, Family Income
The Components of Student-University Identification and Their Impacts on the Behavioural Intentions of Prospective Students
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Wilkins, Stephen; Huisman, Jeroen – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2013
The purpose of this research is to discover the extent to which prospective higher education students still in secondary education might identify with international branch campuses and the extent to which organisational identification and its individual components might influence students' behavioural intentions towards these institutions.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Bound Students, Identification (Psychology), Multicampus Colleges
Institutional Organisation, Performance Determinants and Success Strategies in Secondary Science Teacher Preparation in France
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Tchibozo, Guy – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2005
In France, secondary teachers are public sector employees. Becoming a science teacher in secondary education is subject to passing public competitive entry examinations. Preparation for these examinations is provided by University Institutes Departments, which are essentially assessed on the basis of the successful performance of their students in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Recruitment, Public Sector, Science Teachers