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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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Leach, Tony – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2015
This paper contributes to the contested body of work on graduate employability, employment and sustained career building. Educational establishments across the world are expected to equip students with the knowledge and skills for employability, sustainable employment and career development. The protean career concept and the boundary-less career…
Descriptors: Employment Potential, Empowerment, Career Development, Employment
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Leach, Tony – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2012
The aim of this article is to exemplify the value of using a phenomenological approach when investigating graduates' lived experiences of vocational learning. For this study, qualitative data was obtained during a series of email interviews with 35 participants. As a group they are highly aspirational and, during their graduate studies, were…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Educational Experiments, Student Experience, Phenomenology
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Leach, Tony – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2010
This paper contains an account of a small scale investigation into the usefulness of the concepts of the learning organisation and organisational learning when seeking to describe the processes of knowledge creation and deployment within the small, but growing, enterprise (SME). A review of the literature reveals a concern that the relationship…
Descriptors: Small Businesses, Industrial Psychology, Entrepreneurship, Workplace Learning