Assessing capability

Capability and Quality in Higher Education

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 174-191

  Yorke, Mantz ^a  

^a LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781315042046-28     Document Type: Chapter

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