The social science training-model doctorate: Student choice?

Journal of Further and Higher Education

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 373-381

  Collinson, Jacquelyn ^a   Hockey, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 85023471905     PISSN: 0309877X     EISSN: 14699486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0309877970210310     Document Type: Article

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