‘Judgement’ versus ‘metrics’ in higher education management

Higher Education

Volumn 77, Issue 5, 2019, Pages 761-775

  Spence, Crawford ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Excellence; Judgement; Managerialism; Measurement; Metrics; Research; Teaching

Indexed keywords

EID: 85051849202     PISSN: 00181560     EISSN: 1573174X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10734-018-0300-z     Document Type: Article

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