Analysing an audit cycle: a critical realist account

Studies in Higher Education

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 963-975

  Boughey, Chrissie ^a   McKenna, Sioux ^a  

^a RHODES UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

critical realism; institutional audits; quality assurance; social realism; teaching and learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84945217258     PISSN: 03075079     EISSN: 1470174X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03075079.2015.1072148     Document Type: Article

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