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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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How Did It Come to This?
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Raban, Colin; Cairns, David – Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education, 2014
The English Funding Council has announced its intention to invite tenders for the contract currently held by the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA), and the Australian government is promoting a Bill to curb the activities of the equivalent body, the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency. This article compares the two…
Descriptors: Quality Assurance, Higher Education, Administrative Principles, Organizational Effectiveness
Quality Risk Management. Modernising the Architecture of Quality Assurance
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Raban, Colin; Turner, Liz – Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education, 2006
Although the world is changing, quality management remains an area of relative calm. Many institutions continue to use elaborated versions of a model that is developed by the Council of Academic Awards and conceived at a time when higher education was not so exposed to market forces, when the policy and regulatory environment was relatively…
Descriptors: Risk Management, Educational Administration, Educational Quality, Management Systems