online degree programs psychology | Financial aid for online training

Posted by bposton on September 5th, 2007 — Posted in online degree programs psychology

Did you know that you can now get financial aid for online degree programs is available through the Federal grants system?

It’s TRUE!!

Here’s the deal.

Until last year, students who were enrolled in online degree programs had to spend half of their program in campus-based classed in order to qualify for federal student grants. But that “50-percent rule,” was repealled (YEAH!! :-) )

So now all students enrolled in eligible online degree programs at accredited institutions in the U.S can get federal student aid in the form of federal loans, grants and work-study .

This is the real deal, folks.

Federal Student Aid, which is an office of the U.S. Department of Education, processes 14 million financial aid applications and distributes more than $80 billion to students through schools annually.

So start filling out those financial aid forms, and get the money you need for college, even if the classroom is at home!

 

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engineering degree online : Technical training growing with Uncle Sam’s help

Posted by bposton on October 22nd, 2006 — Posted in engineering degree online

The demand from employers nationwide for all kinds of hi-tech technical skills is motiviating several states, including North Carolina (my home state) and Florida to ‘re-engineer their tech-ed programs.

(just so you know, North Carolina and Florida have been leaders in education reform and experimentation)

California, which is home to 1 out of every 9 students in the US, recently invested $100 million into new technical education programs in its 2006 budget.

And Uncle Sam is helping too.

In August, President Bush signed legislation renewing the Carl Perkins Vocational and Technical Training Act, which is giving $1.3 billion to the states over the next fiscal year for career technical education in high schools and community colleges.

Here’s what Jan Bray, executive director of the Association for Career and Technical Education is saying about this trend towards hi-tech technical training:

“High schools, community colleges, universities, parents, and employers are all beginning to realize that … to be competitive, our educational system needs more than academic theory. They are realizing there needs to be more relevance to the workplace, to what students are interested in and to what the changing economy needs.”

 Ben

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