Non-completion of full-time and sandwich students in English higher education: Costs to the public purse, and some implications

Higher Education

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 181-194

  Yorke, Mantz ^a  

^a LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 22444452331     PISSN: 00181560     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1003217602541     Document Type: Article

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