Learning outcomes across disciplinary divides and contrasting national higher education traditions

Tertiary Education and Management

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 179-192

  Sweetman, Rachel ^a,b   Hovdhaugen, Elisabeth ^b   Karlsen, Hilde ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b NORDIC INSTITUTE FOR STUDIES IN INNOVATION   (Norway)

Author keywords

employability; higher education policy; institutional performance measures; national systems of higher education; undergraduate study

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904398701     PISSN: 13583883     EISSN: 15731936     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13583883.2014.902096     Document Type: Article

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