Success or failure in a core university unit: what makes the difference?

Higher Education Research and Development

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 59-73

  Dickson, Judith ^a   Fleet, Alma ^a   Watt, Helen M G ^b  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

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EID: 0008450508     PISSN: 07294360     EISSN: 14698366     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07294360050020471     Document Type: Article

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