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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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Rapid Response Research: Using Creative Arts Methods to Research the Lives of Disengaged Young People
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Finlay, Ian; Sheridan, Marion; Coburn, Annette; Soltysek, Raymond – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2013
In Scotland, as in other legislations, the government and its agencies commission educational research to inform policy and practice development. This provides opportunities for academic researchers, who are under pressure to engage in funded research, to carry their interests forward with some assurance of social usefulness and impact. Many…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Research, Research Methodology, Art
Living in an "Entrepreneurial" University
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Finlay, Ian – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2004
This study set out to test the major criticisms of Burton Clark's book "Creating Entrepreneurial Universities: organisational pathways of transformation" (1998). Both Deem (2001) and Smith (1999) criticise Clark on the grounds that he interviewed only a selection of senior staff in the institutions he surveyed and, hence, did not get a closely…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Books, Criticism, Higher Education
Data on the Doorstep: Using Documents for Researching Further Education.
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Finlay, Ian – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2001
Discusses the use of documentary sources such as prospectuses to study further education. Illustrates the process in a study of college and university links in Scotland. (SK)
Descriptors: Documentation, Educational Research, Foreign Countries, Information Sources