Part-Time Education Comes Up Short Vietnam News According to statistics from the Ministry of Education and Training, 200 out of 357 universities and colleges hold in-service training courses. And 834,000 students account for nearly 50 per cent of students.
Amping Up Education Modesto Bee Only 15 percent of Stanislaus adults have a college degree, compared with 29 percent for the state. This low education level is closely linked to other county problems -- poverty, difficulty in attracting new industries and poor health.
Education Review to Ease Skills Shortage Sydney Morning Herald The federal government's review of higher education aims to increase productivity and ease the skills shortage, Employment Participation Minister Brendan O'Connor says.
April 12, 2008
I've gone to my farm in Kentucky for the weekend. It's a great place to relax, do a little hard physical labor, and forget about the rest of the world. If you don't have such a place, I highly suggest you get one.
In the meantime, here's a little something that I found for you to read with your morning coffee.
See you on Monday.
J. Peterman
University Degrees Are a Waste of Time -- British students
By Sarah Cassidy, Education Correspondent
The Independent
Undergraduates fear that the Government's drive to get half of young people into university will make degrees worthless and leave them struggling to get a good job after graduation, an official report revealed yesterday.
Students, who on average now graduate owing £21,500, believe that they will be forced to take on more debt to study for a postgraduate qualification to make them stand out in the jobs market.
The findings will make worrying reading for ministers who have pledged to have 50 per cent of young people studying for a degree by 2010. John Denham, the Universities Secretary, has insisted the target will be stuck to despite conceding that the Government is now unlikely to reach it.
Pro-Charter School PAC Fined $5.2M The CEA Blog All Children Matter, a Michigan-based pro-charter Political Action Committee (PAC) violated Ohio campaign finance laws by funneling $870,000 to its affiliated PAC in Ohio in 2006 and was assessed a record $5.2 million fine by the bipartisan Ohio Elections Commission in a unanimous ruling.
Mystery Buyer Found for Myers University Chronicle of Higher Education According to The Plain Dealer, an entity from outside of Ohio known only as Myers Education LLC has signed a letter of intent to buy the 160-year-old institution.
Scalia Addresses Youth of America School Law Blog "How many of your have read the Federalist Papers?" the justice asked a group of students from Thomas Jefferson High School. "You should have a hardback, dogeared copy on your desk."
This is a joke I heard a few years ago that's probably right on:
A lawyer calls a plumber to h...
— ExPat
April 12, 2008 2:34 PM
komet said...
I think not everyone in the world should be required to have a university degree to live a decent life as seems the case nowadays. Life is an ongoing learning process and there are many ways to learn, a university being only one of them. There are also many honest ways to make a living and most of them shouldn't require a college degree.
This is a joke I heard a few years ago that's probably right on:
A lawyer calls a plumber to his house because the toilet won't flush. The plumber fixes it in five minutes by replacing the broken chain with a new one. The plumber gives the the lawyer a bill for $300. The lawyer says "Hey! How do you justify the $300? I'm a lawyer and I don't even get $300 for an hour." The plumber says: "I know what you mean. When I was a lawyer I didn't get $300 an hour either!"
As a college educated person who works in a profession that doesn't require a degree, I actually make more money now then I did with the degree. My adult children chose not to go to college. They currently work in high-paying careers. They have no college debts, got a head start on making wealth ahead of the college kids, and are all well-read with many interests. Growing up they were immersed in a home environment of art, music, literature, as well as sports. Politics and religion were freely discussed. They worked (maybe sometimes they "lived") on the computer and had as many video games as I could afford.
Is a college/university degree a waste of time? I think it depends on the profession you want to go into. Is a degree necessary? Not really. But I do think an education starts in the home, don't leave it only to the schools.
more on the honor rollmomngus said...
My comment concerns The Peterman Company Catalog.
I want to know why it only has women's clothes up to a size 16. Thick ladies like nice clothes too.
I like the clothes & would like to buy some, but I wear a size 18.
I don't think every career requires the formal degree programs offered by universities. Even in my field (medicine), the practice of Watch One, Do One, Teach One has passed along more practical knowledge and useful skills than years spent in lecture halls. Perhaps apprenticeships are the best way to impart knowledge, but the education institutions don't want to admit that. They are, after all, a money-making enterprise.
Many people equate education with institutionalism. Please pardon me for tooting my own horn but I was reading and enjoying Shakespeare at the age of nine. This would not have happened if I had attended public school. My parents homeschooled me until I was fourteen and then I made my own decision to attend high school (girls played a major part in this choice).
Today, while I'm not rich by any means (Peterman products are an indulgence), I make a healthy living and feed my family successfully. In the tourism trade, my job is to impart historical, architectural, and artistic information to my clients, most of whom are undoubtedly college graduates. Their degrees probably loom with prestige over my one year at a trade school. Yet I constantly receive compliments about how well informed and engaging I am. And, once again, I eat well.