An institutional perspective on QAA subject benchmarking

Quality Assurance in Education

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 187-191

  Hargreaves, Janet ^a   Christou, Alexa ^a  

^a SHEFFIELD HALLAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Benchmarking; Quality assurance; Universities

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986014862     PISSN: 09684883     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09684880210435949     Document Type: Article

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