The economic and distributional implications of current policies on higher education

Oxford Review of Economic Policy

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 298-314

  Keep, Ewart ^a   Mayhew, Ken ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASS; EDUCATION POLICY; HIGHER EDUCATION; POLICY STRATEGY;

EID: 3242892411     PISSN: 0266903X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxrep/grh017     Document Type: Article

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