Growing knowledge about QAA subject benchmarking

Quality Assurance in Education

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 139-154

  Jackson, Norman ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Assessment; Benchmarking, Curriculum; Learning; Modelling; Quality assurance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986174535     PISSN: 09684883     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09684880210435912     Document Type: Article

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