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And Happy New Year.Ridiculously Strong Drinks
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Updated: 2010-12-31 00:43:00: Rick Osborn's Continuing Education Blog A discussion of continuing higher education , adult education , training,and related--and some unrelated--Tennessee . topics Friday , December 31, 2010 Alternatives to drinking on New Year's Eve Hmmm . nbsp Someone sober thought this would work Sorry , a boozy footbath won't get you drunk There are a lot of ways to get drunk especially this time of year but according to new research published in the British Medical Journal , soaking your feet in booze is not one of . them Still , foot drinking sole sipping is a popular urban myth widely circulated in Denmark and elsewhere search drunk , 8221 soaking your feet” and alcohol” and you'll get more than 17,000 hits So much so that Danish researchers decided it was high time to put an end to it with aYear-end summary time
Updated: 2010-12-30 15:35:00The Best Movies of 2010Is there such a thing as being overqualified?
Updated: 2010-12-30 00:35:00Or too educated, for that matter?Are We Too Educated? 9 Occupations With Overqualified WorkersYear-end summary time
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: Rick Osborn's Continuing Education Blog A discussion of continuing higher education , adult education , training,and related--and some unrelated--Tennessee . topics Thursday , December 30, 2010 Year-end summary time The 25 best television series of 2010 Posted by Rick Osborn Email This BlogThis Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to Google Buzz : Reactions 0 comments : Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to : Post Comments Atom About Me Rick Osborn I'm a recent past president of the Association for Continuing Higher Education ACHE and also a past President of the Tennessee Alliance for Continuing Higher Education TACHE Some might say my time has passed In the real world , I work in university continuing education administration . The views expressed here are my ownA college president looks back
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: Rick Osborn's Continuing Education Blog A discussion of continuing higher education , adult education , training,and related--and some unrelated--Tennessee . topics Wednesday , December 29, 2010 A college president looks back On how continuing education changed his . college Lakeland College prepares for evolving work force greenbaypressgazette.com Green Bay Press Gazette Lakeland in the 1970s was among the first colleges in the Fox River Valley to offer bachelor's degree programs for working adults . The move was the vision of William Kellett , former Kimberly-Clark Corp . president and member of Lakeland's board of . trustees Gould said Kellett had been involved with the state's commission on higher learning and was concerned about challenges graduates from two-year colleges faced whenCall for ACHE proposals
Updated: 2010-12-28 13:47:00: Rick Osborn's Continuing Education Blog A discussion of continuing higher education , adult education , training,and related--and some unrelated--Tennessee . topics Tuesday , December 28, 2010 Call for ACHE proposals The Program Committee for the 2011 ACHE Annual Conference and Meeting invites proposals for interactive sessions to be presented at the Hilton Orlando Bonnet Creek in Orlando , Florida , October 13-15, 2011. For more information and submission guidelines , visit the Call for Proposals . Website Posted by Rick Osborn Email This BlogThis Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to Google Buzz : Reactions 0 comments : Post a Comment Older Post Home Subscribe to : Post Comments Atom About Me Rick Osborn I'm a recent past president of the Association for Continuing HigherYear-end summary time
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: Rick Osborn's Continuing Education Blog A discussion of continuing higher education , adult education , training,and related--and some unrelated--Tennessee . topics Tuesday , December 28, 2010 Year-end summary time 2010's most memorable movie moments Posted by Rick Osborn Email This BlogThis Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to Google Buzz : Reactions 0 comments : Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to : Post Comments Atom About Me Rick Osborn I'm a recent past president of the Association for Continuing Higher Education ACHE and also a past President of the Tennessee Alliance for Continuing Higher Education TACHE Some might say my time has passed In the real world , I work in university continuing education administration . The views expressed here are my own andLake effect job market
Updated: 2010-12-27 13:55:00: Rick Osborn's Continuing Education Blog A discussion of continuing higher education , adult education , training,and related--and some unrelated--Tennessee . topics Monday , December 27, 2010 Lake effect job market Great Lakes , Good Job Market Companies based in the Great Lakes area expect to hire 13 more new graduates with bachelor’s degrees regionally for the 2010-2011 academic year compared with the year earlier , according to a recent survey by the Collegiate Employment Research Institute at Michigan State University . The region includes Ohio , Michigan , Indiana , Illinois and . Wisconsin Posted by Rick Osborn Email This BlogThis Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to Google Buzz : Reactions 0 comments : Post a Comment Older Post Home Subscribe to : Post Comments Atom AboutYear-end summary time
Updated: 2010-12-27 00:34:00They aren't ranked but I like Self-Proclaimed Vampire Brings Out Seattle SWAT.Top Headlines of 2010Hoping for a redneck hot tub this Christmas
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Updated: 2010-12-24 11:17:00: Rick Osborn's Continuing Education Blog A discussion of continuing higher education , adult education , training,and related--and some unrelated--Tennessee . topics Friday , December 24, 2010 Year-end summary time You will be visited by 69 spirits” : 23 TV episodes based on A Christmas Carol” 1. Mister Magoo’s Christmas Carol 1962 Often cited as the first animated Christmas special , Mister Magoo’s Christmas Carol is also one of the first TV shows to place an existing character within the rough outline of Charles Dickens’ classic novella about an elderly miser named Ebenezer Scrooge and the series of ghosts who provide him with some historical perspective on his life . In this hourlong special , the nearsighted bumbler Mr . Magoo voiced as always by Jim Backus appears on Broadway in aNearby LMU
Updated: 2010-12-24 01:55:00Experiments with recruiting practices. Lincoln Memorial University has a bustling off-campus program that this article in the Chronicle of Higher Education doesn't even mention. A Small University Embraces a Big-Business Formula for RecruitingYear-end summary time
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: Rick Osborn's Continuing Education Blog A discussion of continuing higher education , adult education , training,and related--and some unrelated--Tennessee . topics Thursday , December 23, 2010 Year-end summary time The 10 Best Sitcom Christmas Episodes of the Past 30 Years Posted by Rick Osborn Email This BlogThis Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to Google Buzz : Reactions 0 comments : Post a Comment Older Post Home Subscribe to : Post Comments Atom About Me Rick Osborn I'm a recent past president of the Association for Continuing Higher Education ACHE and also a past President of the Tennessee Alliance for Continuing Higher Education TACHE Some might say my time has passed In the real world , I work in university continuing education administration . The views expressed hereIt's not fair to judge
Updated: 2010-12-23 00:30:00Without knowing who these colleges serve. Many serve urban, part-time populations who take longer to graduate. I bet may serve first-generation college students who also take longer.Colleges With The Lowest Graduation RatesToday is
Updated: 2010-12-23 00:16:00Christmas Adam: he day before Christmas Eve. Since Adam was created before Eve, and the need to be equitable in the holiday season, Christmas Adam creates further anticipation of Christmas Day.Guy 1: When is your family coming to our place? Guy 2: On Christmas Adam and leaving New Year's Day.Finals ended last week but in review....
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Updated: 2010-12-22 14:34:00: Rick Osborn's Continuing Education Blog A discussion of continuing higher education , adult education , training,and related--and some unrelated--Tennessee . topics Wednesday , December 22, 2010 On the other hand Virtual meeting are . increasing Are Virtual Office Meetings Better Than the Real Thing Results published by Market Media Research shows that virtual meetings and events doubled from 2008 and 2009. The industry is expected to grow to 18.6 billion by 2015, a 56 percent annual growth rate . Especially when it comes to virtual trade shows and conferences , USA Today says that companies are even turning to programs like Second Life to host their virtual meetings while other businesses are developing innovative techniques to combine social media and the virtual event to create a moreMaybe telecommuting isn't such a good idea after all
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: Rick Osborn's Continuing Education Blog A discussion of continuing higher education , adult education , training,and related--and some unrelated--Tennessee . topics Wednesday , December 22, 2010 Maybe telecommuting isn't such a good idea after all People might value physical , social interaction and increase the quality of their work accordingly . nbsp The Value of Face Time : To Work Better , Work Closely The authors analyzed a bunch of scientific studies , looking at how far away the participating researchers labored from one another . They then looked at how often those studies were cited by other scientists , which is a measure of how influential the work . becomes They found that the closer together researchers worked , the more often other academics cited their study . This wasNow! A Good Time to Return to School
Updated: 2010-12-21 03:05:32Going back to school may be your answer for a brighter financial future. This could be your chance to position yourself to excel beyond the rest.I may have mentioned something earlier about liking my iPhone
Updated: 2010-12-21 00:08:00: Rick Osborn's Continuing Education Blog A discussion of continuing higher education , adult education , training,and related--and some unrelated--Tennessee . topics Tuesday , December 21, 2010 I may have mentioned something earlier about liking my iPhone Daniel Hamermesh offers help for the climate- challenged iPhone user . nbsp And boy have we been climate-challenged around here . lately How to Stay Warm While Operating Your iPhone in the Cold New technologies give rise to other new technologies and complementary goods . I love my iPhone and , living in a warm climate , I always have fingers warm enough to operate the heat-sensitive letters on its screen . But in a cold climate , I would have the same problem others have I would have to choose between being able to operate the iPhoneYear-end summary time
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: Rick Osborn's Continuing Education Blog A discussion of continuing higher education , adult education , training,and related--and some unrelated--Tennessee . topics Tuesday , December 21, 2010 Year-end summary time The top worst film according to The A.V . Club The Last Airbender The 15 worst films of 2010 Artistically and critically speaking , there was no bigger fiasco this year than The Last Airbender M . Night Shyamalan’s first foray into big-budget special-effects action-adventure . Clumsily adapting the entire first season of a terrific Nickelodeon animated series into a 103-minute live-action feature , Shyamalan coped with his time crunch by having the characters dully , dutifully explain everything they’re thinking , planning , or feeling . Flat acting and stiff directing don’tThe new regulation that is giving every online degree program heartburn
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: Rick Osborn's Continuing Education Blog A discussion of continuing higher education , adult education , training,and related--and some unrelated--Tennessee . topics Monday , December 20, 2010 The new regulation that is giving every online degree program heartburn If we enroll out-of-state students , even in our online programs , we have to be authorized by every state . involved I'm beginning to have sympathy for the Republican point of view concerning the fate of the Department of Education . nbsp From the Chronicle of Higher . Education State-Oversight Rule Draws Protests From Colleges and Congress Under the Higher Education Act , colleges must be legally authorized to provide postsecondary education in every state where they . operate But the law does not specify how states shouldThis alone could stave off tuition increases
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: Rick Osborn's Continuing Education Blog A discussion of continuing higher education , adult education , training,and related--and some unrelated--Tennessee . topics Monday , December 20, 2010 This alone could stave off tuition increases Appy State has its own brewery and wants to profit from . it Meanwhile , in Tennessee , we can't even possess alcohol on state . property ASU brews hops , hopes to sell beer Ivory Tower Brewery , in the basement of the Broyhill Inn and Conference Center , is a small nonprofit brewery operated by university professors who taught an honors class in beer brewing to 12 students last . spring The class covered the chemical , biological and production process of brewing malted beverages , including the science of how to combine hops , malt and yeast to produceExtending continuing education to the high school
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: Rick Osborn's Continuing Education Blog A discussion of continuing higher education , adult education , training,and related--and some unrelated--Tennessee . topics Monday , December 20, 2010 Extending continuing education to the high school We do some of this with dual enrollment , but we haven't had much luck with high school students attending summer . school And I'm sure we could register students as young as 10 in any credit class . nbsp But it may be time to look at it again . nbsp I think the DoSC mission is interesting . nbsp It seems broader than most in continuing education . nbsp How does yours compare Rutgers Continuing Studies and HEROES offer 2,700 in Talent Search Scholarships Rutgers University's Division of Continuing Studies DoCS” and Higher Education , Resources andCreative Writing Workshop - Verb-Driven Narrative
Updated: 2010-12-18 22:28:59Improve your prose by writing strong, verb-driven narrative. The first chapter of Ian McEwan's novel, Enduring Love, provides a starting-point.What is the Value of a Community College Education?
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Social, economic, and global factors are discussed in relation to the significance of earning a two-year degree or career certification.Event: ESOL Funding Summit
Updated: 2010-12-03 16:55:17Venue: London, TBC Date: Wednesday, 12 January 2011, 10:30am to 3:30pm Price: £95 + VAT Lsect, a new company specialising in post-16 funding, performance and data within the learning and skills sector, are organising an event around the announced funding cuts in English for Speaks of Other Languages (ESOL) provision. In addition to there being less funding [...]Write to your MP to maintain ESOL provision
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Please write to your MP to express concern about the Government’s proposal to limit entitlement to publicly-funded ESOL provision to members of ‘settled communities’, as announced in the recent Comprehensive Spending Review. There is currently no details regarding who qualifies as a member of ‘settled communities,’ which leads to concerns about the exclusion of people [...]Writing Poetry - Useful Exercises for Beginners
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Seven easy writing exercises for beginner-poets, exploring language, the senses and play-on-words. Suitable for writing circles.Medical Assistant Career, Introduction to the Medical Field
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Medical assistant training is becoming one of the fastest growing fields in healthcare. Learn if a career in medical assisting is right for you.EVENT: NUS/UCU National Demonstration ‘Fund Our Future: Stop Education Cuts’
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Venue: Horse Guards Avenue, Westminster. Date: Wednesday 10 November 2010 from 11:30 am Price: Free Join NUS/UCU to fight against education cuts The National Union of Students (NUS) and the University and College Union(UCU) are jointly organising a national demonstration titled ‘Fund Our Future: Stop Education Cuts’. The Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR) and the Browne [...]Ask your MP to sign EDM 866: Funding for Adult Learning
Updated: 2010-11-01 18:46:24Please write to your MP to ask her or him to sign Early Day Motion (EDM) 866. Read the Early Day Motion below. Funding for Adult Learning Dobson, Frank That this House expresses its concern over prospects of severe and disproportionate reductions in funding for adult lifelong learning; notes the public statements in support of [...]Event: The Future of our Schools
Updated: 2010-11-01 17:46:52Venue: Congress House, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3LS Date: Saturday 27 November 2010, 10am – 4pm Price: Free The TUC are organising a schools conference on Saturday November 27th 2010 to debate the government education reform agenda. The Conference is open to everyone with an interest in the future of our schools, including parents, [...]