Golden years? Further education colleges under local authority control

Journal of Further and Higher Education

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 359-371

  Simmons, Robin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HUDDERSFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

control; FE; LEA

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349565300     PISSN: 0309877X     EISSN: 14699486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03098770802395579     Document Type: Article

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