A comparative look at the challenges of access and equity: Changing patterns of policy making and authority in the UK and US higher education

Higher Education Policy

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 87-116

  Douglass, John Aubrey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Access; Mass higher education; UK and US higher education

Indexed keywords

EID: 21344452307     PISSN: 09528733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.hep.8300075     Document Type: Article

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