Leadership best practices for sustaining quality in UK higher education from the perspective of the EFQM excellence model

Quality Assurance in Education

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 148-170

  Osseo Asare, Augustus E ^a   Longbottom, David ^a   Murphy, William D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DERBY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

European Foundation for Quality Management; Higher education; Leadership; United Kingdom

Indexed keywords

EID: 20344403291     PISSN: 09684883     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09684880510594391     Document Type: Article

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