Disabled students in higher education: Perspectives on widening access and changing policy

Disabled Students in Higher Education: Perspectives on Widening Access and Changing Policy

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 1-201

  Riddell, Sheila ^a   Tinklin, Teresa ^b   Wilson, Alastair ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b Faculty of Education Strathclyde University ^*  (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203087121     Document Type: Book

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