Serving the society historical and modern interpretations of employability

Higher Education Policy

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 271-284

  Aamodt, Per Olaf ^a   Hovdhaugen, Elisabeth ^a   Bielfeldt, Uta ^b  

^a NORDIC INSTITUTE FOR STUDIES IN INNOVATION   (Norway)

^b Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Scientific Community Evaluation Division   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bologna; Employability; Norway; Quality

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952839203     PISSN: 09528733     EISSN: 17403863     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/hep.2010.6     Document Type: Article

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