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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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Briggs, Ann R. J. – Management in Education, 2008
Modelling of statistical data is a well established analytical strategy. Statistical data can be modelled to represent, and thereby predict, the forces acting upon a structure or system. For the rapidly changing systems in the world of education, modelling enables the researcher to understand, to predict and to enable decisions to be based upon…
Descriptors: Mathematical Models, Statistical Data, Foreign Countries, Cooperation
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Briggs, Ann R. J. – Management in Education, 2007
A recent study of middle managers in English further education (FE) colleges explored the concept of professionalism as displayed by the various types of manager in the study. The study tracked the shifting patterns of professional identity in the sector. Within any one college, individual managers may hold differing constructs of professionalism;…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Middle Management
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Briggs, Ann R. J. – Management in Education, 2005
Changes in the concepts of professionalism in English Further Education (FE) colleges can be traced back to the Further Education Reform Act 1988 and the incorporation of colleges in 1992. Incorporation--essentially a decentralising of control over colleges--entailed new forms of governance, and the transfer of functions such as finance, estates…
Descriptors: Adult Education, School Districts, Educational Change, Case Studies