A good league table guide?

Quality Assurance in Education

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 61-72

  Yorke, Mantz ^a  

^a LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Performance indicators; Performance measurement; Quality; Universities; Validity

Indexed keywords

EID: 22044445891     PISSN: 09684883     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09684889710165107     Document Type: Article

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