'The customer is always right?': Student discourse about higher education in Australia

Higher Education

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 593-604

  White, Naomi Rosh ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Commodification; Higher education; Learning; Students; Teaching

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548426508     PISSN: 00181560     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10734-006-9012-x     Document Type: Article

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