Accountability and innovation in higher education: A disabling tension?

Studies in Higher Education

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 313-329

  Findlow, Sally ^a  

^a KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 45749094261     PISSN: 03075079     EISSN: 1470174X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03075070802049285     Document Type: Article

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