Shagging a college degree using a home school approach seems an impossible dream after high school. When home school kids become college eligible they have to enter the institutional environment of so-called traditional colleges to acquire a degree. However, things have changed. Traditional college and even online colleges are no longer the only alternative paths […]
Just this afternoon I had a brief conversation with a woman whose daughter is now in high school. My wife and I have a son who is now in college and when (I’ll call her) Rosa and I originally talked about our kids some years ago her daughter was in the 4th grade. That was […]
A study reveals that online education has proved more flourishing and successful if all online programs offering institutions offer entire degrees online than those that offer only a scattering of courses. The report was based on finding out what made an online education program successful and to share the information with other institutions. The organization […]
There are reams of reading and stacks of studies purporting to assess various problems of the United States’ educational system. Each problem turns out to be rooted in our individual failure to place an extremely high value on a solid education. Our failure contrasts sharply with societal values of China, India or Japan where admission […]
Community means integrated body of individuals. Therefore learning communities could be defined as a unified body of individuals whose purpose is focused on learning. Learning communities can be brought together in a variety of ways. Schools, colleges and universities are a good example of communities. But there are some communities slightly different from the traditional […]
One of the great truisms of our age is that the job market is changing fast. There are always shifts in the job market, and, likely, there will always be such changes, but between the Internet, globalisation, the rise of certificated work, and other extenuating factors, the job market is undergoing a revolution today unlike […]
Career institute training is a better fit than a traditional degree for some people. It is an education program that usually results in a certificate of completion or a certificate of mastery instead of a traditional BA, BS or graduate degree. Career training focuses on teaching students things like basic office skills as well as […]
Aside from the statistics about the sheer number of careers across our lifetimes in 2009, there are a multitude of new perspectives on career planning, and career options. Was it an option to be a network engineer in a small office when you were a youngster? How about a nanotechnology researcher? Had you ever heard […]
To undertake a rational career planning approach, we need ask ourselves and acknowledge the answer to the following two similar questions. Are words career and job synonyms of each other? Does looking for a job mean the same as charting your career path? The answer to both the above questions is a big ‘No’. The […]
Building the ideal career begins with you identifying what it is you really want to do with your life in the long term. No matter what you want to do, there are steps you need to put in place first, to help you get to where you want to be. To build the ideal career, […]
