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Capella University Announces New Online Degrees
Capella University announced today that it has added two new online degree programs and three new specializations. The University is introducing an RN to BSN degree program, one of the most popular healthcare educational choices today. Because of the increased complexity of today’s health care environment, the National Advisory Council on Nurse Education [...]
All UK Nurses Will Need Degree in 2013
The Health Minister in Great Britain announced today that as of 2013, all nursing candidates must have completed a three year degree program at an accredited college of nursing. At the moment, most of the nurses in Britain obtain a diploma in nursing studies and then sit for the licensing exam.
Health Minister Ann Keen [...]
College Grads Changing Careers to the NYPD
The ranks of New York City’s finest are being joined by increasing numbers of refugees from other New York career sectors, notably the financial services area. Applications to the Police Academy rose 54 percent in 2008 over 2007, when there were 17,212 applicants. The wider pool of candidates has enabled the department to become [...]
Tags: business degrees, career changers, career opportunities, criminal justice degrees, law degrees, law enforcement
New Employment Survey Report in the News
Exhibiting an uncanny grasp of the obvious, CNN’s Money section, is carrying a story about the difficult job market for 2010 college graduates: Job Outlook: Still Stinks. “Hiring for graduates will remain near its lowest level in decades after 40% plunge last year, new survey says. But hiring will spike 15% at smaller companies.”
This is [...]
New Jersey College Offers Classroom on a Flash Drive
New Jersey’s Thomas Edison State College has been in the experimentation mode with a new form of course delivery: the flash drive. These solid state memory devices are the size of a house key and fit in one of the USB drives on your computer – a slot that has been standard on all [...]
Midwest Coalition of States Proposes College Credit Bank
According to the Chicago Tribune and several other news sources today, a dozen Midwestern states are studying the creation of a college-credit exchange that could make it easier for college dropouts to finally complete their degrees.
The project would create an electronic database where people could post documentation about the college credits they have earned [...]
Tags: adult education, business degrees, career changers, new technology, online degrees
Texas School Receives Grant to Support Hispanic Graduate Students Online
The U.S. Department of Education awarded the School of Education at the University of St. Thomas in Houston a $2.8 million Title V Education Grant to fund the Promoting Post Baccalaureate Opportunities for Hispanic Americans (PPOHA) Program. The purpose of the education grant is to implement programs to achieve parity among Hispanic graduate students and [...]
Lots of Opportunity in Health Care Technology
Health care and technology have been growth industries for years – and some of the best job openings today are in fields where health care and technology meet. Radiology technician schools are turning out professionals that have been trained to work with the ever-expanding diagnostic tools used in medicine today. Some of these [...]
Health Informatics Degrees a Multidisciplinary Effort
The University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee recently placed ads seeking candidates for a tenure-track professor’s position in Health Informatics. The description of the entire academic program illustrates the combination of traditional academic disciplines that contribute to this relatively recent addition to the degree options in the medical field.
“The Program is multidisciplinary involving not only [...]
Further Accreditation for DeVry Project Management Programs
DeVry University and its Keller Graduate School of Management recently announced additional accreditation for several of their degree programs from the Project Management Institute’s Global Accreditation Center (GAC).
The Institute recognized DeVry’s MBA with concentration in Project Management and their Master of Information Systems Management. In addition, the GAC conferred accreditation to DeVry University’s project management [...]
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