Archive for November, 2009
Western Government University Launches Scholarship Program
Western Governors University has decided to invest in continuing education for small business employees and owners with a scholarship plan for people who want to complete their education with an online degree in business. Each scholarship is $3,000 and the University intends to award up to thirty of them each year.
The program is [...]
Fine Arts Teaching Degrees from Boston University Online
Boston University is one of the traditional academic institutions in this country that has embraced online education. Their new Master’s in Art Education is an example of what a school with deep resources can do with the online experience when they try. Students who are artists or have a love of the arts [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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