North by northwest: Quality assurance and evaluation processes in European education

Journal of Education Policy

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 121-133

  Grek, Sotiria ^a   Lawn, Martin ^a   Lingard, Bob ^b   Varjo, Janne ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Europeanization; Fabrication; Governing; Policyscape; Quality assurance

Indexed keywords

EID: 67949123037     PISSN: 02680939     EISSN: 14645106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02680930902733022     Document Type: Article

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