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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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Equity, Access and Institutional Competition
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Magalhaes, Antonio; Amaral, Alberto; Tavares, Orlanda – Tertiary Education and Management, 2009
In 1974, when a successful revolution had overthrown a dictatorial regime, Portugal had an elite higher education system with low participation rates. In the decades following the revolution, the state developed policies aimed at increasing student participation to European levels. However, higher education policies have been through frequent…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Access to Education, Equal Education
The Open Method of Coordination and the Implementation of the Bologna Process
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Veiga, Amelia; Amaral, Alberto – Tertiary Education and Management, 2006
In this paper the authors argue that the use of the Open Method of Coordination (OMC) in the implementation of the Bologna process presents coordination problems that do not allow for the full coherence of the results. As the process is quite complex, involving three different levels (European, national and local) and as the final actors in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, International Cooperation, Higher Education