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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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Boyer, Patricia G.; Holtman, Lorna; Murphy, Carole H.; Thaver, Beverley – Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences, 2014
The downturn of the global economy requires universities worldwide to do more with fewer resources. These conditions have presented an opportunity for two universities, the University of the Western Cape and the University of Missouri-St. Louis, to collaborate on a research course offered to postgraduate students. The purpose of this article is to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Institutional Cooperation, International Cooperation, Graduate Study
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Wood, Phil; Warwick, Paul; Cox, Derek – Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences, 2012
Consideration of the physical environment in which learning takes place has become a growing area of academic interest over the past decade. This study focuses on the experiences and perceptions of academic staff and students who used three refurbished, and innovative, learning spaces at the University of Leicester. The results suggest that the…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Physical Environment, Higher Education, Foreign Countries
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Bathurst, Laura – Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences, 2012
In the tradition of anthropological reflexivity, this article examines how the structure of early doctoral training contributes to the construction of particular kinds of anthropologists. Based on research conducted in an anthropology department in the U.S.A. during the late 1990s, the experience of the transition from undergraduate to doctoral…
Descriptors: Anthropology, Doctoral Degrees, Doctoral Programs, Cultural Awareness
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Sellerberg, Ann-Mari – Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences, 2011
The article draws on the reports by 12 guest professors--all women--who participated in an EU-financed pedagogical project within a Swedish university's postgraduate studies course, the purpose of which was to address equal opportunities in academia. It has been established that women with doctoral degrees are not being absorbed into the research…
Descriptors: Graduate Study, Females, Doctoral Degrees, College Faculty
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Martinez, George A.; Nerad, Maresi; Rudd, Elizabeth – Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences, 2010
This paper presents a workshop report that summarises the potentially far-reaching deliberations and results of a conference of experts in doctoral education from around the world. The conference was organised jointly by the U.S. Center for Innovation and Research in Graduate Education (CIRGE) at the University of Washington, Seattle and the…
Descriptors: Graduate Study, Doctoral Programs, Workshops, Foreign Countries
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Mangset, Marte – Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences, 2008
British universities are known among the other Bologna countries not to have adjusted fully to the new common three-tier degree structure. Is it the case that British higher educational concerns are different from Continental concerns? A study of recent developments in two British graduate schools of history shows that a three-tier study structure…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Bachelors Degrees