The paradox of the education race: How to win the ranking game by sailing to headwind

Journal of Education Policy

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 612-633

  Simola, Hannu ^a   Rinne, Risto ^b   Varjo, Janne ^a   Kauko, Jaakko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

contingency; convergence; Finland; path dependency; quality assurance and evaluation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84883654116     PISSN: 02680939     EISSN: 14645106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02680939.2012.758832     Document Type: Article

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