Vision, values and international excellence: The 'products' that university mission statements sell to students

The Marketisation of Higher Education and the Student as Consumer

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 73-85

  Sauntson, Helen ^a   Morrish, Liz ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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