Quality assurance in Australian higher education: Globalisation and 'steering at a distance'

Higher Education

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 391-408

  Vidovich, Lesley ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Accountability; Globalisation; Higher education; Policy; Quality assurance

Indexed keywords

EID: 0141456147     PISSN: 00181560     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1014616110418     Document Type: Article

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