Parallel Universes and Common Themes: Reforms of Curricular Governance in The Bologna Context

Higher Education Dynamics

Volumn 26, Issue , 2009, Pages 227-255

  Witte, Johanna ^a  

^a Bavarian State Institute for Higher Education Research and Planning (IHF)   (Germany)

Author keywords

Accreditation System; High Education Institution; High Education System; Programme Accreditation; Quality Assurance System

Indexed keywords

EID: 79957632237     PISSN: 15710378     EISSN: 22151923     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-9505-4_10     Document Type: Chapter

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