Measuring quality in higher education: Can a performance indicator approach be extended to identifying the quality of students' union provision?

Quality in Higher Education

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 79-92

  Rodgers, Timothy ^a  

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Author keywords

Performance indicator; Quality management; Students' unions

Indexed keywords

EID: 46949094007     PISSN: 13538322     EISSN: 14701081     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13538320802028171     Document Type: Article

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