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Are YOU Stifling Your Own Career? No 3 - The Lure of Qualifications

From the day of your birth you have been nurtured, cared for and steered by others in the direction that will hopefully meet the challenge of a preparation for life and self-responsibility. Your parents and the education system have been the main parties in this endeavour. And a large part of their goal must have been to prepare you for the work-place. So… what to do?

“TRY TO BECOME NOT A MAN OF SUCCESS BUT RATHER A MAN OF VALUE”… Albert Einstein

If we go back 50 years when less than 5% of kids went to University, the impact of further education was far greater than today. A degree was regarded as a passport to a career and meant, almost without exception, that you would never be unemployed. You would be placed on a pedestal by employers, given the opportunities in the work-place to which others were not entitled and thus your place in more senior positions was, with a little effort and training, assured.

Compare that with today, when upwards of 40% of students go on to a form of further education (FE). The odds of you making waves in a career on the back of a degree (for the graduate of any University or College) are dropping like a stone. The numbers are simply against it. Soon it will be the exception rather than the rule not to have a degree.

The passport, then, is no longer why bother? struggle through a course, the examination system, the stress and the strain of further education?

The answers to this most important and vexing of questions is found in a blunt and self-effacing scrutiny of exactly the purpose of further education for you personally. Let’s examine the mains possible reasons:-

a) Any degree is still a “bottle-top” that half of …

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Recent Polls Show Four Year Colleges Are Not for Everyone

August 5, 2019September 12, 2019 - by Claire Hamilton

A college degree is central to most people’s conception of the “American Dream,” but the dearth of good jobs resulting from the economic downturn has people re-evaluating exactly what a college degree looks like.

The Associated Press and Stanford University teamed up to poll over 1,000 adults nationwide; the poll measured their opinions of educational quality in four-year colleges and universities versus community colleges and technical schools.

The vast majority of those polled, nearly 70%, said that many community colleges offer an education as good as one from a four-year school. The majority of respondents also noted that it’s “sometimes better for students to pursue a diploma or certificate from a two-year school than aim to enter a four-year college.”

Larry Wyse, one of the adults interviewed for the survey, said that the traditional mindset that “every student should attend a four-year college,” is frustrating. Wyse, who holds a bachelor’s degree in mathematics, chose instead to pursue a technical trade and has run a heating repair and plumping business for almost 30 years.

Says Wyse, “not every student who graduates from high school has the capability or the financial means or the intestinal fortitude that it takes to complete a four-year degree. There are a lot of skilled trade and technical service type jobs that are begging for applicants.”

The results of the AP and Stanford poll appear to reiterate this sentiment as more Americans are choosing community colleges, trade schools, or online universities to earn a certificate or degree in a specialized field of study or trade.

When asked if college degrees prepare students for the workforce, 62% of respondents answered “yes” for community colleges while 68% responded affirmatively on behalf of four-year schools.

The close proximity of these figures is telling and supports the rise in …

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Online Medical Schools – Are They Your Best Option?

March 21, 2019September 10, 2019 - by Claire Hamilton

Online medical schools and every other type of online schools seem to get a bad rap sometimes. The truth is that there are some cons about taking only classes online but, there are also a whole bunch of pros as well. Many people will tell you that if you get an online degree and go for a job while someone with a regular degree is applying as well, you will not get the job. Now, that is simply not true. The hiring manager will look at you both with an even eye because you have taken the same exact classes but one was online and the other was not.

There are several disadvantages to going to an online medical school such as Kaplan College. The first and maybe largest disadvantage is, you don’t get that face time that you would get with your teacher if you weren’t online.

Another disadvantage to taking an online medical school’s classes would be that there is always a delay in trying to get help. What this means is that, in a regular class you raise your hand and ask your question, then you get an answer right away. With an online class, you have to email the instructor and wait until they have read and replied. The last disadvantage would have to be that you don’t meet anyone that maybe you could study with. There may not be a way to communicate with others in the class.

Now, when people say that there is no face to face time, it’s just not true. Maybe physically you can’t see your teacher, but you can email anytime you want and there is always a room that your instructor stays during school hours. Also, when people say that you can not find a study partner or make any …

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Government Measures Aimed At Curbing Rural

October 1, 2017December 15, 2016 - by Claire Hamilton

Donald Trump, in a September 8th speech in Cleveland given little media attention, mentioned he would use the ability of the Presidency to have all 50 states use public tax money to pay for personal and religious faculty tuition. Together with unstructured play, my kids also do a spread of other, extra structured, bodily education activities as well. A task is a 10-minute, educational (however enjoyable!) activity that fourth and fifth graders will complete in groups of six. Subsequently, the final word content material and scope of population education will depend upon the goal group. In fact, for my part, anybody who attended college and elect to go together with someone undereducated is losing his/her college education.

The sad half is that their dream will ultimately explode as actuality sets in. What once worked very well in education no longer works. Great lens – I love the giggle poetry from Meadowbrook (I really utilized for a job there out of collage, however alas no luck 🙂 ) and thanks for submitting some lenses to Review Central – I’ll actually add a category for educational children website evaluations. So we examined whether the lifetime employment profiles of adults with vocational versus basic forms of education differ by the scale of the dual system, utilizing knowledge on 22 nations from the Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC). I too am all in favour of education and will look ahead to your hubs on the historical past of education. I even have only worked with iPad reviewing children apps with video, educational apps – Come visit!

The kids just assume it’s funny…last week they discovered about erections, and many others, which I’m positive I didn’t find out about at age 9. However, children as of late will not be the same as 30 years …

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Project Based Learning Science

June 29, 2017December 15, 2016 - by Claire Hamilton

Specialized Academic Instruction (SAI) has expanded all through California’s public faculties over the previous few years. Republicans are main the effort to create it. Since 1965, the federal government, by way of more than one hundred programs within the Department of Education, has spent $2 trillion on elementary and secondary education with little substantial enchancment in tutorial achievement or high school commencement charges. Family Life Education will allow folks to understand the significance of the family as the fundamental bio-social group in society. Our long term purpose is to foster the development of a unified analysis community desirous about Data Science Education. When kids enjoy nice surroundings with good supplies, trendy gear and beneath the tutelage of a top quality trainer then they may take more pleasure of their education.

Having a leg up from educational applications like Brainetics implies that your youngster will get one of the best chance possible to succeed proper from the get-go. Buck Institute for Education – In some ways, that is the premier site for steering and plans to get you began in PBL. Hillary Clinton believes that each little one, no matter his or her background, needs to be guaranteed a high-high quality education.

Chastened by the massively successful Opt Out motion, outgoing Secretary of Education Arne Duncan informs state authorities that if compliance falls beneath ninety five% with the ESSA mandated annual evaluation that the government will takeover all public faculties in the state and turn them into self-storage lockers. State legal guidelines say that children must attend faculty till the age of sixteen, however they don’t say that their education must take place within the confines of an educational facility. I additionally took metropolis exams for Traffic Enforcement, School Safety Agent, Motor Vehicle Driver, etc. The salaries typically are larger in …