Archive for the ‘ Certificate Programs ’ 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 ]

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 ]

Better Nurse-To-Patient Ratios Save Lives

Morbidly funny in a tragic, effed-up sort of way: watching patients in busy, understaffed medical facilities croak so someone can save some money. [ READ MORE ]

Online Education

And I’m even one of those perfect-for-online-coursework nerds who is intense and focused and driven toward knowledge-consumption like a surfer is driven to a perfect set at dawn; it’s cold and dark and I haven’t had enough sleep but I can’t not get it done. [ READ MORE ]

Too Much Enrollment, Not Enough Funding

Enrollment at community colleges is increasing at a startling rate. The two main contributing factors being: (a) college students and their parents are pinched for funds and spending a few years at a community college is several thousand dollars cheaper than heading for a four-year school immediately after high school graduation; and (b) adults who [ READ MORE ]

Increasing Marketable Skills Re-Post

Ah, the economy. I’ve always assumed that most humans of legal money-earning age have three thought-topics on more or less constant rotation through their minds: food, sex, and money. Those are all directly related to survival, so it makes sense that we’d be hyper-focused on them. And yet, when the media and the government types [ READ MORE ]

University of Washington’s Online Education Options

In today’s Daily, the University of Washington’s campus paper, there’s an opinion piece that makes some persuasive arguments for increasing the online-ness of UW’s two online learning options, the College of Engineering’s EDGE Program and UW Online Learning. While the EDGE Program—which was kicking online education ass before online education was cool (since 1984, thank [ READ MORE ]