Rebooting Irish higher education: policy challenges for challenging times

Studies in Higher Education

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1343-1354

  Hazelkorn, Ellen ^a  

^a DUBLIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Ireland)

Author keywords

economic recession; higher education; Ireland; quality; sustainability; system restructuring

Indexed keywords

EID: 85027932913     PISSN: 03075079     EISSN: 1470174X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03075079.2014.949540     Document Type: Article

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