Converge or not converge: The European Union and higher education policies in the Netherlands, Belgium/Flanders and Germany

Higher Education Policy

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 225-240

  Rakic, Vojin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Convergence; Higher education systems; Institutional isomorphism

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035458209     PISSN: 09528733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0952-8733(01)00016-2     Document Type: Article

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