Accreditation and quality assurance for professional degree programmes: Comparing approaches in three European countries

Quality in Higher Education

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 75-95

  Frank, Andrea ^a   Kurth, Detlef ^b   Mironowicz, Izabela ^c  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b University of Applied Science   (Germany)

^c WROCLAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

higher education; national approaches; planning education; professional accreditation; quality assurance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859582038     PISSN: 13538322     EISSN: 14701081     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13538322.2012.669910     Document Type: Article

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