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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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Hernandez-March, Julio; del Peso, Monica Martin; Leguey, Santiago – Tertiary Education and Management, 2009
This paper presents the main results obtained from 40 in-depth interviews with persons in charge of human resources and/or company directors, and from a questionnaire targeting 872 companies surveyed from a data base of the 5,000 main Spanish companies. The objectives of this paper are the following: first, to identify the competencies required of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Labor Market, Interviews, Questionnaires
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Nicolescu, Luminita; Paun, Cristian – Tertiary Education and Management, 2009
The paper takes into discussion the issue of quality of higher education services, from the perspective of graduates and employers as main beneficiaries of higher education services, by putting face to face expectations of students at graduation with employers' requirements. In the two surveys conducted in 2006 in Romania, both graduates and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Labor Market, Foreign Countries, Education Work Relationship
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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
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Dever, Maryanne; Morrison, Zoe – Tertiary Education and Management, 2009
This article presents findings from a qualitative study focused on the conditions that support high research productivity in women. Interviewees were all active researchers and many were national or international leaders in their respective fields. While personal factors such as motivation, focus, and good scholarly habits were identified as…
Descriptors: Productivity, Research Projects, Women Faculty, Womens Education
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Litwin, Jeffrey M. – Tertiary Education and Management, 2009
A prestigious reputation is the primary success factor in higher education because it attracts resources necessary to sustain growth. Among research-intensive universities (RIUs), research performance is a key driver of institutional reputation. Achieving an accelerating rate of growth of research performance is the desired objective of all RIUs…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Research Universities, Reputation, Competition
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Temple, Jacqueline B.; Ylitalo, Jari – Tertiary Education and Management, 2009
Higher education institutions are facing major challenges requiring traditional leadership and administrative policies and practices to be rethought and renewed. These challenges concern the whole academic community but mostly the institutions' administrative leaders. This article suggests how applying the democratic principles of "inclusion",…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Higher Education, Administrative Policy, Organizational Change