Buying your way into college? Private tuition and the transition to higher education in Ireland

Oxford Review of Education

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-22

  Smyth, Emer ^a  

^a ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Ireland)

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EID: 61449205361     PISSN: 03054985     EISSN: 14653915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03054980801981426     Document Type: Article

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