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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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West, Andrew – Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education, 2008
The call to be strategic--and with it the concept of strategic management--can bring to mind a wide range of definitions, and there is now a huge array of academic literature supporting the different schools of thought. At a basic level, however, strategic thinking is probably most simply about focusing on the whole, rather than the part. In…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, Higher Education, Governance, Institutional Administration
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Hogan, John; West, Andrew – Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education, 2007
This paper arises from presentations given at a colloquium involving members of the Association of University Administrators (AUA) and staff from the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) of the UK Funding Councils held in November 2005. It discusses the increasing reliance on IT in modern higher education administration, and the role of the…
Descriptors: Leadership, College Administration, Information Systems, Research Libraries
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West, Andrew – Perspectives London policy and practice in higher education, 2004
The 2003 UK's government White Paper on the future of higher education (DfES 2003) included the broad statement that 'all students are entitled to be taught well, and to be given the support they need to learn effectively.' But quality teaching--in the sense of quality in the classroom or online--is not the whole story, according to the author,…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Universities, College Faculty, Foreign Countries