CREATING AN INSTRUMENT TO MEASURE PERCEPTIONS ABOUT ACCESS TO HEALTH-RELATED HIGHER EDUCATION PROGRAMMES IN SOUTH AFRICA.
Background: The South African government has created countless policies that support the need to admit and graduate students who had been excluded from health-science programmes in higher education settings during the apartheid era. Objective: to develop a questionnaire that could be used by various...
| Publicado en: | South African Journal of Higher Education Vol. 34; no. 6; pp. 185 - 201 |
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