Representations of a high-quality system of undergraduate education in English higher education policy documents

Studies in Higher Education

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 610-623

  Ashwin, Paul ^a   Abbas, Andrea ^b   McLean, Monica ^c  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LINCOLN   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Basil Bernstein; higher education policy; pedagogic discourse; Quality; undergraduate education

Indexed keywords

EID: 84925260619     PISSN: 03075079     EISSN: 1470174X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03075079.2013.842211     Document Type: Article

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