Democratizing higher education and access to science: The Portuguese reform 2006-2010

Higher Education Policy

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 239-257

  Heitor, Manuel ^a   Horta, Hugo ^a  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

access; autonomy; diversity; public policy; strengthening academic research

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901056308     PISSN: 09528733     EISSN: 17403863     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/hep.2013.21     Document Type: Article

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