Systemic adaptation to a changing environment: Towards a next generation of quality assurance models

Higher Education

Volumn 44, Issue 3-4, 2002, Pages 433-448

  Jeliazkova, Margarita ^a   Westerheijden, Don F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bologna process; Cross sector comparison; Phase model; Policy argumentation; Quality assurance

Indexed keywords

EID: 0141567797     PISSN: 00181560     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1019834105675     Document Type: Article

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