Student finance, information and decision making

Higher Education

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 459-472

  Mangan, Jean ^a   Hughes, Amanda ^a   Slack, Kim ^a  

^a STAFFORDSHIRE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Decision heuristics; Student finance; University applications; Widening participation

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956766577     PISSN: 00181560     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10734-010-9309-7     Document Type: Article

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