The characteristics of 'gap-year' students and their tertiary academic outcomes

Economic Record

Volumn 83, Issue 262, 2007, Pages 329-344

  Rose Birch, Elisa ^a   Miller, Paul W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE; DECISION MAKING; STUDENT; UNIVERSITY SECTOR;

EID: 34548810332     PISSN: 00130249     EISSN: 14754932     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4932.2007.00418.x     Document Type: Article

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