Medical education is facing a convergence of challenges that the authors characterize as the four horsemen of the medical education apocalypse: teaching patient shortages, teacher shortages, conflicting systems, and financial problems. Rapidly expanding class sizes and new medical schools are coming online as medical student access to teaching patients is becoming increasingly difficult because...

In the wake of apartheid, the South African government faces the challenge of reforming its higher education system so to increase access for the country’s black citizens who represent a majority of the nation’s population, but are a minority of those who attend and graduate from university. One potential solution is the expansion and development of distance education, and specifically, to reac...

Wage Dispersion, Markets and Institutions: The Effects of the Boom in Education on the Wage Structure In this paper, we investigate the effects of the boom in education on the wage structure in Europe. We use detailed information on the distribution of wages, estimated from microdata from 12 European countries from the beginning of the 1980’s to the present, to analyse the changes both between ...

Abstract—The Debye expansion integrals obtained by application of the Modified Watson Transformation and Debye series expansion to the Mie series for the high frequency plane wave transmitted into a double negative (DNG) cylinder are solved in the geometrically lit regions of the corresponding Debye series terms. The Debye series expansion is made up to the possible maximum term after which dou...