Knowing your 'lemons': Quality uncertainty in UK higher education

Quality in Higher Education

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 19-29

  Cooper, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Commodification of learning; Informational asymmetry; Marketing of higher education; Quality uncertainty

Indexed keywords

EID: 34147186319     PISSN: 13538322     EISSN: 14701081     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13538320701272698     Document Type: Article

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