The Changing Face of Accountability: Monitoring and Assessing Institutional Performance in Higher Education

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Benchmarking model for management education in India

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Sustainability Reporting in State Universities

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Assessing the legitimacy of HEIs’ contributions to society

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Performance Indicators in Indonesian Universities: The Perception of Academics

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Responsibility-centred budgeting: an emerging trend in higher education budget reform

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Reassessing the core of hospitality management education: The continuing importance of training restaurants

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The Dilemma of Accountability for Professionals: A Challenge for Mainstream Management Theories

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The effect of an academic dismissal policy on dropout, graduation rates and student satisfaction. Evidence from the Netherlands

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Governing through accountability: Gendered moral selves and the (im)possibilities of resistance in the neoliberal university

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Is meritocracy fair? A qualitative case study of admissions at the University of Oxford

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Classifying Community Colleges Based on Students’ Patterns of Use

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When qualitative productivity is equated with quantitative productivity: scholars caught in a performance paradox

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Promoting organizational learning inhigher education to achieve equity in educational outcomes

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Community–University Engagement: A Process for Building Democratic Communities

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Market-Based Higher Education: Does Colorado’s Voucher Model Improve Higher Education Access and Efficiency?

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The Price of Winning and the Impact on the NCAA Community

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Exploring student satisfaction and future employment intentions

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Wikis as Platforms for Authentic Assessment

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Critical success factors for next generation technical education institutions

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Challenges to Feminist Solidarity in the Era of New Public Management

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