Employers, quality and standards in higher education: Shared values and vocabularies or elitism and inequalities?

Higher Education Quarterly

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 229-249

  Morley, Louise ^a   Aynsley, Sarah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 34447292431     PISSN: 09515224     EISSN: 14682273     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2273.2007.00353.x     Document Type: Article

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