Building European-level quality assurance structures: Views from within ENQA

Quality in Higher Education

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 89-103

  Ala Vähälä, Timo ^a   Saarinen, Taina ^b  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

Author keywords

Bologna Process; ENQA; Quality assurance

Indexed keywords

EID: 70449598233     PISSN: 13538322     EISSN: 14701081     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13538320902995741     Document Type: Article

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