Across the great divide: What do Australian academics think of university leadership? Advice from the CAP survey

Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 379-387

  Coates, Hamish ^a   Dobson, Ian R ^b   Goedegebuure, Leo ^c   Meek, Lynn ^c  

^a Australian Council for Educational Research   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Academic opinion; CAP survey; University administration

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954431476     PISSN: 1360080X     EISSN: 14699508     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1360080X.2010.491111     Document Type: Article

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