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Making sense of higher education: students as consumers and the value of the university experience
In the global university sector competitive funding models are progressively becoming the norm, and institutions/courses are frequently now subject to the same kind of consumerist pressures typical of a highly marketised environment. In the United Kingdom, for example, students are increasingly demonstrating customer-like behaviour and are now demanding even more âvalueâ from institutions. Value, though, is a slippery concept and has proven problematic both in terms of its conceptualisation and measurement. This article explores the relationship between student value and higher education and, via study in one United Kingdom business school, suggests how this might be better understood and operationalised. Adopting a combined qualitative/quantitative approach, this article also looks to identify which of the key value drivers has most practical meaning and, coincidentally, identifies a value-related difference between home and international students
Nonperturbative Renormalization of QED in Light-Cone Quantization
As a precursor to work on QCD, we study the dressed electron in QED
nonperturbatively. The calculational scheme uses an invariant mass cutoff,
discretized light-cone quantization, a Tamm--Dancoff truncation of the Fock
space, and a small photon mass. Nonperturbative renormalization of the coupling
and electron mass is developed.Comment: Latex, 4 pages, 1 figur
Anomalously light mesons in a (1+1)-dimensional supersymmetric theory with fundamental matter
We consider N=1 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory with fundamental matter in
the large-N_c approximation in 1+1 dimensions. We add a Chern-Simons term to
give the adjoint partons a mass and solve for the meson bound states. Here
mesons are color-singlet states with two partons in the fundamental
representation but are not necessarily bosons. We find that this theory has
anomalously light meson bound states at intermediate and strong coupling. We
also examine the structure functions for these states and find that they prefer
to have as many partons as possible at low longitudinal momentum fraction.Comment: 14 pages, 3 figures, LaTe
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