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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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Brown, Roger – Quality in Higher Education, 2011
England is developing a new quality assurance regime that will come into effect in October 2011. A new funding regime will operate from the following year, together with new rules to ease the participation of private higher education providers. This article describes and analyses the new quality and funding regimes. It argues that the greater…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Quality Assurance, Higher Education, Financial Support
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Brown, Roger – Quality in Higher Education, 2010
Following a report by a Parliamentary Committee, the Higher Education Funding Council for England is consulting the sector about a strengthened national quality assurance system, with an enhanced role for information about quality and a closer focus on academic standards. This article provides a critical review of the main proposals.
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Quality Control, Foreign Countries, National Standards
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Brown, Roger; Carpenter, Caroline; Collins, Roz; Winkvist-Noble, Lilian – Quality in Higher Education, 2007
There is general recognition that increased demand for information about programme quality has accompanied the nearly universal massification of higher education, the consequential pressures on public expenditure, and the associated requirements of greater accountability. The UK government has sought to respond to this demand by establishing an…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Student Attitudes, Academic Standards, Internet