Engineering Degree Online | My hairdresser knows for sure

Posted by bposton on November 14th, 2006 — Posted in engineering degree online

I got my hair cut the other day, and I started a conversation with the girl, er lady that cut my hair.

Her name is Alicia, and she’s already figured out the online degree thing.

Alicia will be finishing up her undergraduate degree in Religous Studies, and then she’s going to get her Masters in Organizational management.

As soon as she mentioned her plans for a graduate degree, i asked her if she had ever considered getting a degree online.

“Oh, I’m definitely getting my masters online” she said without hesitation, “it’s the ONLY way to go…”

So I gave her an honorary membership into the online degree dorm room :-)

Yea, my hairdresser knows for sure - online degrees have come of age. Especially when considering a graduate degree. I see ads and billboards all over touting one online graduate degree program after another.

And Alicia knows the score. She’s going to stay home with her growing family, keep working, and earn her masters in a short period of time. Then she’ll be off to the races.

Problem is, she probably won’t be cutting my hair after that - which is bad news for me :-)

Ben

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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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