Quality and the research assessment exercise: Just one aspect of performance?

Quality Assurance in Education

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 5-13

  Boaden, Ruth J ^a   Cilliers, Jan J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Assessment; Innovation; Performance measurement; Quality; Research

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986065117     PISSN: 09684883     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09684880110381283     Document Type: Article

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