Tracking students' progress through the Spanish university school sector

Higher Education

Volumn 58, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 821-839

  Lassibille, Gérard ^a   Gómez, Ma Lucía Navarro ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÁLAGA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Dropout; Graduation; Higher education; Spain; Transfer

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951203910     PISSN: 00181560     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10734-009-9227-8     Document Type: Article

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