Are there distinctive clusters of higher and lower status universities in the UK?

Oxford Review of Education

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 608-627

  Boliver, Vikki ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

cluster analysis; differentiation; higher education; Russell Group universities

Indexed keywords

EID: 84945481413     PISSN: 03054985     EISSN: 14653915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03054985.2015.1082905     Document Type: Article

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