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By Anna Green, September 24, 2011 11:18 am

With the rise of distance education programs online, students worldwide are turning to this convenient method to receive a college education. While not denying that online education offers prospective students a flexible alternative to traditional schools are not an insurance scam that need to be aware of to avoid receiving a fake diploma. Bogus degrees are more common than many might think, and nobody can mislead into believing they are receiving a quality education when in fact they are not. While distance education is a viable way to achieve their goals of education, be aware of the following scams or very well could end up with a bogus title.

When searching for online degree programs is very important to ensure that the school is accredited. It is easy for a college to say they are fully accredited, but unless they are accredited through appropriate means could end up with bogus degrees that mean nothing to potential employers. Today, some schools are just taking your money is going to create their own illegitimate accreditation boards to give the illusion that your school is the real deal. To be safe, and ensure they do not end with a fake diploma, check with proper accreditation boards for any online program you are considering.

A sign of common sense, people tend to miss is the lack of contact information a school provides. A legitimate school will provide full contact information for students to contact their teachers. While email is certainly a convenient way to communicate with your school, should not be the only way. Make sure you wish to attend school provides an address and phone number where you can reach them. Schools that offer bogus degrees often ignores this relevant information that should be your first warning sign.

It is also important to remember that any claim that sounds too good to be true probably is. For example, if a degree program online claims that you will be able to complete their education fast or makes outrageous statements that sound incredible, listen to your intuition! It is probably a publicity stunt designed to take your money and leaves him hanging with a fake diploma. Fraudulent certificates will not be taken seriously by an employer or school, and if you fall prey to one of these scams is on the left in the lurch.

While a form of online education offers people flexibility to achieve their educational objectives, it is important to keep an eye out for anything that looks the slightest suspicion. By getting a college education, you want your degree to say something and a fake diploma from a school that is not legitimate, do not take you where you want to be in life. When the investigation of distance education programs, always make sure the school is legitimate before paying any money to study with them. If you are not careful, you may end up with a fake diploma after all, your time and money has been spent.

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By Anna Green, August 6, 2011 11:33 am

The reform plan is a watered down version of earlier proposals to ‘completely recast’ the lycée system that was abandoned last year following major street protests from teachers and pupils.

There is no mention this time around of the introduction of a more unified lycée curriculum or the use of semesters, ideas which the protesters believed were aimed at reducing the number of school hours and teaching posts.

The new plan is much more consensual, and largely based on recommendations contained in a report made to the President by the Director of Science Po in Paris, in the aftermath of the strikes and protests.

The main lines of the plan are as follows:

-English Language Teaching: All pupils leaving lycée should be at least bilingual, and preferably trilingual, with a proficiency in the English language a particular priority. There are to be additional facilities for language teaching, more use of native speakers, as well as more visits overseas, grouping of pupils by language ability, and changes to the examination process. In 2008 an international survey ranked French students 69th in a list of 109 countries in their level of proficiency of the English language.

-Rebalancing of the Streams: The Literature stream of the Baccalaureate is to be changed in order to make it more attractive to pupils and in an effort to try and break the dominance of the Scientific stream. In particular, it will be given a strong international dimension, including more extensive language teaching, with one or two subjects possibly being taught in a foreign language. At the present time only 16% of pupils opt for the Literature stream, which lacks the kudos of the Scientific stream taken by around 40% of Lycée pupils.

-More Gradual Specialisation: There is to be a more general Baccalaureate in the first year, to give pupils more time to make up their minds about the subjects they wish to study in their second and third years. There is also to be a ‘right to make a mistake’ by allowing pupils who feel they have wrongly chosen a stream to change to another one in the year or at the start of a new year. This will be facilitated by a more general first year curriculum and additional teaching classes during the school holidays to bring them up to the level of existing pupils.

-University Links – The third year will be even more specialist than at present, with stronger links to higher education institutions (notably for science and engineering subjects) and the world of work. Lycée school teachers will be given an opportunity to teach at a university, while more pupils will be granted work experience opportunities, in the same manner as occurs for lower secondary school pupils.

-More Pupil Support: Pupils are to be given personalised tutorial support to deal with difficulties they may be facing in coping with their studies. The aim is to reduce the number of pupils obliged to sit their year again (redoublement), which costs around a €1b a year. It is planned of offer this support to second and third years by a reduction in the number of teaching hours per week. Lycée pupils in France have 1036 teaching hours a year, around 10% more than the OECD average.

-Culture and Arts: Culture and arts education will be developed further, notably by a more practical orientation through the provision of a multi-media platform in each school, and stronger school and pupil links with local and regional cultural institutions.

The ideas have received a muted welcome from the teaching unions and pupil representatives, who remain to be convinced just how they are going to be implemented against the backdrop of the planned reduction next year of thousands of teaching posts.

They argue that greater flexibility in the curriculum, the introduction of tutorials, more external experiences, and greater emphasis on language teaching will all require additional teaching resources. Many lycée classes already contain 30 or more pupils, too large say the teachers to offer broader, more personalised and flexible education.

The government argues that the reduction in teachers is a response to lower pupil numbers, not a view shared by the teaching unions who believe it is all about cash savings.

More details of the plan are due to be published in December, when we may also find out more about just how it is all to be funded, and the reaction of the teaching unions and pupils will be clearer. No changes are planned until Sepember 2010.

Learn more at http://www.french-property.com/news/

David Yeates

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By James, April 26, 2010 1:11 am

Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace have often gotten a bad rap from educators as time-wasters. But is there a light at the end of the social media tunnel?

Students are using social media sites to help with their college search: reading peer reviews of college campuses, chating about college admissions questions with fellow applicants and experts alike, and getting an inside peek into college life. Even college admissions departments are joining the trend in order to recruit and communicate with potential applicants.  A recent study by the National Association for College Admissions Counselors (NACAC) reports that over half of colleges use social media in the admissions process.

That’s why social media mash-ups for college are gaining popularity. These sites combine student reviews, videos, and blogs into a single page, providing a much-needed window into a college’s presence on the web. Virtual college fairs, like CollegeWeekLive, and other online resources are nearly making it possible for cross-country campus visits to be a thing of the past, as students are increasingly granted exposure to campus life through the internet. Virtual venues allow students to live chat with real admissions officers, watch video tours of campus, download brochures, and read reviews from current students.

One site offering social media tools for college is CampusCompare. It gives students the best of both worlds with the College Current—a feature that shows both the official blog and twitter posts from college admissions offices and the informal peer reviews and college videos. Teens can finally have access to a well-rounded picture of their dream school from a variety of sources and tap into the collective wisdom in a way not possible through college visits or static guidebooks.

As the role of social media sites continues to grow in college admissions, and teens continue to spend more and more of their time on social media websites, the question becomes not “whether” but “which” social media teens should use in their college search.

CampusCompare facilitates the college search and selection process by providing info, reviews, and media, connecting students to over 3000 colleges.

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By Anna Green, January 29, 2010 2:01 pm

Today’s children are hit with information overload right from the start. With television and internet being a part of every household, there is little scope to do the things that kept children occupied in previous decades – reading or playing on their own or with friends for example. Still, reading develops a number of skills in children that are highly desirable, and will carry them forward through their lives. Concentration, vocabulary, knowledge of life and imagination are the most important of these.

How, then, can a parent introduce a child to books from an early age, without succumbing to the lures of the colorful, vibrant screens?

1. Read while you are pregnant. For people who believe in suggestions during pregnancy, I would suggest reading to your child even while in utero.
2. Show your child that you read. Get your child used to the image of a parent holding a book, long before he/she begins to understand what the book is, let alone what the parent is doing with it.
3. Read to your newborn. If you read while breastfeeding, read aloud – even if the book is meant for grown-ups. The simple act of reading aloud becomes a ritual in this way – one that the child grows up with.
4. When the child can understand words… it is time to read to the child instead of just reading about in his/her presence. Start with books that will not be easily torn or broken – hard cardboard works well. If you are not satisfied with the content or quality of the books you buy, you can even commission older children to draw pictures for a storyline you write.
5. Use flash cards. Most adults read by recognizing the shapes of words, rather than spelling out individual letters. Using flash cards, you can get your child to do this from an early age. It also forms an attractive game to keep him/her busy and comparatively quiet for some time.
6. Pick books that you can agree with. Keep a watchful eye on the messages being conveyed by the books your children read. Today, more and more children’s books are including people of all sizes, colors and shapes – trying to destroy the culture of white, hourglass-figured barbie.

Though reading, writing and speaking use different parts of the brain, all these are equally essential for developing a good vocabulary. Therefore, encourage your child to speak about what he/she has read, and to draw imaginary situations from the books recently read.

A child who can express what he/she is feeling – in words or images – is always better equipped to handle social situations, academic scenarios and life in general. Speaking also forces the child to use the information gleaned from reading. Asking the child about the books s/he has read will also help the parents keep track of learning progress, and can also detect any learning disorders at the earliest stages. Quite obviously, this also promotes parent-child interaction.

Pick the best Childrens books and Parenting books.

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By James, January 28, 2010 7:09 am

Colleges and universities across the nation approach enrollment diversity in many different ways. Some schools actively seek to diversify their student body, while other schools maintain that academic excellence should be the most important factor when considering a student for admission.

Currently, the University System of Maryland Board of Regents is considering the role that diversity plays in higher education. Recently, at a forum on diversity in Maryland, many influential members of the state education system met to discuss how Maryland is dealing with diversity in higher education. Dan Mote, University of Maryland President, Brit Kirwan, university system chancellor, and others expressed concern regarding diversity in the state of Maryland:

“There’s no silver bullet for this problem. It’s not a one-problem, one-program, one-idea kind of problem. There are just a lot of pieces to this…. We have a lot of programs supporting people from disadvantaged circumstances and, of course, minority enrollment and diversity and all of these issues,” Mote said. The university’s minority programs provide “a lot of opportunities to implement ideas,” Mote said, adding that this university will work with the USM in developing initiatives that target black males.’ 1

A diverse student body in higher education is important to different schools for different reasons. In Maryland, officials expressed concern that if minority access to higher education is not improved, the future of the state may be at stake; “because if the growing minority population doesn’t receive an adequate higher education, the state’s workforce will dwindle and the economy will suffer.”

Promoting racial diversity in higher education is a complicated endeavor, as justice Ginsburg noted: “It’s very hard for me to see how you can have a racial objective, but a non-racial means to get there.”

Along these lines, the American Civil Rights Coalition–a group that has been called “anti-affirmative action” is investigating the admissions policies in Arizona, and 8 other states.

An ASU spokeswoman stated that ”A student’s ethnic background has never been used as a factor in determining admittance to ASU,”, she also declared that academic qualifications are the sole criterion for admissions.

Conversely–in an attempt to increase diversity in the student body–the University of Wisconsin has decided to include race as a factor in the admissions process.

As Dan Mote expressed, the problem of racial diversity in higher education is much more deeply rooted than the admissions process. The mere fact that the pool of qualified applicants is not in proportion with the racial constitution of a given population is a good indication that there is a more deeply-rooted problem.

Unfortunately this point brings the argument full circle; how can we change racial diversity in higher education without using racial qualifiers to achieve these goals?

Perhaps we need to revisit the larger issue: should promoting diversity be considered reverse discrimination?

–Sources 1 Overly, Steven; “University struggles with minority education”, Diamondbackonline, 2-20-07 2 Associated Press “Anti-affirmative action group to investigate Arizona schools” Mohave Daily News, February 19, 2007

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By Onslow, January 26, 2010 5:38 pm

In this world, if you are not internet savvy, you are not going to be able to create a huge internet inspired and based company.  The internet offers so many opportunities for a wide variety of people yet not everyone is taking advantage of some of the key tools that one needs to be a success in the internet world such as cloud computing training.  Many of you out there may have not heard about this type of computation, which is alright.  That’s why you are here to learn more about this unique type of internet tool and how you can take advantage of this information to create a new online kingdom.

The Rise of Clouds

Cloud computing is very important these days.  An online technician can show you how important this type of computing is due to the various conferences, companies that provide cloud computing education, classes, courses and training sessions that teach the matter.  There are many business which fully support cloud computing as seen with the various donations that HP, Amazon and Google have made to institutions in order to fund computer science programs with the tools necessary to teach students about this fascinating computation program.

What is Cloud Computation?

1. This program can either be rented out or paid for by an advertising basis.

Why Get Trained Today?

In today’s technologically savvy world, cloud computing training is necessary.  There are various venues where you can learn more about cloud computation such as conferences and training sessions.  Some Cloud computing trainings last a full day and come with labs so that you can try out your new knowledge first hand.  These training sessions may be online or at a reputable institution.  Many programs are offered online because these facilities know that you are important and have many tasks on your plate already.  Learning computation online makes your life easier, training during the hours that you can dedicate your time to rather than mandatory schedules.

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