Academic recruitment and selection : the case of Turkish and Nigerian Academia

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Ejiaga, Romanus Chidi
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Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis

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R. C. Ejiaga, “Academic recruitment and selection : the case of Turkish and Nigerian Academia,” Middle East Technical University, 1991.
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