Evaluation and quality assurance in Finnish and Italian Universities in the Bologna process

Quality in Higher Education

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 109-120

  Ursin, J ^a   Huusko, M ^b   Aittola, H ^a   Kiviniemi, U ^a   Muhonen, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Evaluation; Higher education; Quality assurance; University

Indexed keywords

EID: 51249093009     PISSN: 13538322     EISSN: 14701081     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13538320802278222     Document Type: Article

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