Striving for “world-class excellence”: Rankings and emerging societies

Higher Education in the Global Age: Policy, Practice and Promise in Emerging Societies

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 246-270

  Hazelkorn, Ellen ^a  

^a DUBLIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Ireland)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203626788     Document Type: Chapter

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