Archive for the ‘ Career Schools ’ Category

Tax Breaks for Higher Education

Forbes contributor Robert W. Wood gives advice about which forms of higher education qualify for tax breaks[ READ MORE ]

What Can I Do With A Major In…?

UC Berkeley has a cool page on their site that allows you to click on any of their given majors and get a write-up of what you can do with said major (i.e., grad school, job)[ READ MORE ]

Multi-Tasking Medical Assistants

If Awesome Multi-Tasker is one of your special skills, you might want to consider adding 'medical assistant' to your list of career options[ READ MORE ]

Forward Progress: Solving the Nursing Shortage

The nursing shortage is having an effect. Below are just the recent moments of solution finding[ READ MORE ]

Global Nursing Shortage

Nursing is a solid career choice these days. If you’re leaning that direction but haven’t made your final decision, Hill’s words could very well convince you[ READ MORE ]

Feds Will Require Better Numbers From For-Profit Colleges

Starting in July 2011, for-profit schools, like DeVry and Phoenix, will be required to tell prospective students statistical facts concerning the school’s track records in two specific areas: Graduation rates and post-graduation job placement rates. [ READ MORE ]

Checking Accreditation: Show Me You’re Smarter Than a Monkey

I don’t care how high your SAT scores are: if you’re planning to attend any institution of higher education that isn’t blatantly obvious in its accreditation (Stanford, Yale, etc.), and you don’t take the so-easy-a-monkey-could-do-it step of checking your intended school’s official accreditation status, then you’re an idiot[ READ MORE ]

Meat School

The month-long intensive certificate course at SUNY’s meat lab in Cobleskill, near Albany, teaches everything a student needs to know to run their own small meat-processing business. [ READ MORE ]

Labor Force Shifts Toward Health

The Baby Boomers are getting old(er). Anyone working in the healthcare industry will have an excellent chance to maintain their jobs, careers, and mortgage payments despite the economic downturn. [ READ MORE ]

Sports Psychology

They are also supposed to maintain an inhuman level of cool calm through the thousands of intense fight-or-flight moments they encounter in their athletic careers. [ READ MORE ]