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The article introduces a new international educational community based on Students’ Quality Circles, in which industry and education have learned to collaborate for mutual benefit. In each country represented in this special issue, there have been distinctive bottom-up initiatives, informed by the experience of collaboration. We emphasise Quality as Empowerment.
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Ennals, R. Quality as empowerment: going around in circles. AI & Soc 27, 331–335 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-012-0375-5
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-012-0375-5