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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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Brockerhoff, Lisa; Stensaker, Bjørn; Huisman, Jeroen – Quality in Higher Education, 2014
This article discusses how teaching excellence is prescribed by policy-makers and perceived by higher education institutions in the national competition for teaching excellence ("Wettbewerb Exzellente Lehre") in Germany. Teaching excellence has become an important topic around the world. Its importance can be seen in the increase in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Educational Quality, Teacher Effectiveness
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Huisman, Jeroen; Westerheijden, Don F. – Quality in Higher Education, 2010
This contribution looks critically at the achievements regarding the Bologna action line "European cooperation in quality assurance". Much has been realised but most of the visible achievements are at the supranational level: the development of the European Standards and Guidelines, the launch of the European Network of Quality Assurance Agencies,…
Descriptors: Quality Control, Learning Experience, Foreign Countries, International Cooperation
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Minelli, Eliana; Rebora, Gianfranco; Turri, Matteo; Huisman, Jeroen – Quality in Higher Education, 2006
This article focuses on the impact of research and education evaluation on two universities: Trento State University (Italy) and the University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands). The article adopts a system approach to evaluation and proposes a model to describe and analyse evaluation systems. The analysis has been carried out by means of in-depth…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis, Research Utilization, Universities
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Faber, Marike; Huisman, Jeroen – Quality in Higher Education, 2003
The European dimension in quality assurance grows and glows. In this article, we try to relate the European objectives, as stated in the various European initiatives, to the national quality assurance systems of The Netherlands and Denmark. This will be done by looking closer at the objectives regarding quality assurance and internationalisation,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Quality Control, Higher Education, Educational Quality