Instruments as empirical evidence for the analysis of Higher Education policies

Higher Education

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 135-151

  Reale, Emanuela ^a   Seeber, Marco ^a,b  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LUGANO   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Evaluation; Funding; Higher Education; Instruments; TRUE

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873701949     PISSN: 00181560     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10734-012-9585-5     Document Type: Article

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