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Please mind the gap: students' perspectives of the transition in academic skills between A-level and degree-level geography

Simon Tate School of Geography, Politics and Sociology, 5th Floor Claremont Tower, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, UKCorrespondence[email protected]
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Jon Swords Department of Geography and Environment, Northumbria University, Ellison Building, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 8ST, UK
Pages 230-240 | Received 18 Nov 2011, Accepted 27 Sep 2012, Published online: 28 Jan 2013

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Katherine Stewart. (2022) Troubled transition? The relationship between curriculum for excellence geography and Scottish undergraduate geography. Scottish Geographical Journal 138:1-2, pages 159-183.
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