Understanding what we mean by the generic attributes of graduates

Higher Education

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 215-241

  Barrie, Simon C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Generic skills; Graduate attributes; Phenomenography

Indexed keywords

EID: 31744446982     PISSN: 00181560     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10734-004-6384-7     Document Type: Article

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