Double degrees: Double the trouble or twice the return?

Higher Education

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 575-591

  Russell, A Wendy ^a   Dolnicar, Sara ^a   Ayoub, Marina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

Double degrees; Gender; Interdisciplinarity; Learning communities; Student surveys; Transdisciplinarity

Indexed keywords

EID: 42149099976     PISSN: 00181560     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10734-007-9076-2     Document Type: Article

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