Disciplinarity: A barrier to quality assurance? The UK experience of area studies

Quality in Higher Education

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 37-46

  Canning, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Area studies; Benchmarking; Interdisciplinarity; Multidisciplinarity; Student experience

Indexed keywords

EID: 27944481332     PISSN: 13538322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13538320500074931     Document Type: Review

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