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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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Davidovitch, Nitza; Sinuany-Stern, Zilla; Iram, Yaacov – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2013
This article deals with paradoxical relationships between Israeli universities and colleges and their effect on the system of higher education. The article analyzes the history of the higher-education discourse, ranging from patronizing and domineering relations to collaboration based on the recognition that Israel's entire system of higher…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Educational History, Colleges
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Davidovitch, Nitza; Iram, Yaacov – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2009
This article addresses a unique relationship evolving between the two major categories of higher learning institutions in Israel: the country's universities, and the colleges that were established in their shadow. The history of higher education is outlined, stressing the initial dominance of the research universities, and explaining the gradual…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Research Universities, Foreign Countries, Educational Change
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Davidovitch, Nitza; Soen, Dan; Iram, Yaacov – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2008
This article focuses on the erosion of the monopoly by universities of the higher education system in Israel. The hegemony of the universities, the major player in the academic field, has been shattered by the development of the regional colleges that unsettled the preconceptions concerning the higher education system in Israel, including the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Profiles, Microeconomics