‘Quality agencies’: The development of regulating and mediating organizations in scandinavian higher education

Building the Knowledge Economy in Europe: New Constellations in European Research and Higher Education Governance

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 188-218

  Hansen, Hanne Foss ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

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EID: 84958120466     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4337/9781782545293.00013     Document Type: Chapter

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