Historical and contextual perspectives on benchmarking in higher education

Benchmarking and Threshold Standards in Higher Education

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 7-34

  Armstrong, Michael ^a  

^a NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 85071018007     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9781315042244-9     Document Type: Chapter

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