A sustainable cohort of professional civil engineering graduates? Uncovering the United Kingdom graduate crisis

International Education Journal

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 374-384

  Edwards, David J ^a   Dainty, Andrew R J ^a   Love, Peter E D ^b  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Civil engineering; Forecasts; Graduate shortages; Manpower planning; United Kingdom

Indexed keywords

EID: 18544366393     PISSN: 14431475     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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