An assessment of past and current approaches to quality in higher education

Australian Journal of Education

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 237-255

  Harvey, Lee ^a  

^a BIRMINGHAM CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accountability; Higher education; Improvement; Monitoring; Performance indicators; Quality assurance

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039758203     PISSN: 00049441     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/000494419804200303     Document Type: Article

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