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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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Quietly Flows the Don? Higher Education, Turbulence, and Timeless Verities
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Eastwood, David – Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education, 2008
This article presents the first part of Professor David Eastwood's paper given as the AUA Annual Guest Lecture on October 24, 2007. He begins the article with some reflections on the distinctiveness and the self-referential self-confidence of higher education (HE) because he wants to torsion his later remarks against what he takes to be its…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Policy, Educational Philosophy, Role of Education
Quietly Flows the Don? Higher Education, Turbulence, and Timeless Verities
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Eastwood, David – Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education, 2008
This is Part 2 of Professor Eastwood's paper given as the AUA Annual Guest Lecture on 24 October 2007. In Part 1 he summarised the historical development of British higher education and reflected on five topics which appear to be settled in the HE debate: desirability of mass HE; desirability of sector diversity; a mixed economy for funding;…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational History, Foreign Countries, Financial Support