Opening the gates or coping with the flow? Governing access to higher education in Northern and Central Europe

Higher Education

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 299-313

  Pinheiro, Rómulo ^a   Antonowicz, Dominik ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AGDER   (Norway)

^b NICOLAUS COPERNICUS UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Access; Equity; Governance; Higher education; Norway; Poland; Policy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84912554829     PISSN: 00181560     EISSN: 1573174X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10734-014-9830-1     Document Type: Article

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