The graduate guarantee
Updated: 2011-06-30 12:06:00
: Rick Osborn's Continuing Education Blog A discussion of continuing higher education , adult education , training,and related--and some unrelated--Tennessee . topics Thursday , June 30, 2011 The graduate guarantee This university is offering free post-graduate training to any of its graduates whose employers find deficiencies in their entry-level job . skills It might be cost efficient for large universities to offer this same guarantee , and then provide any requested training to a third-party online vendor like . JER Might work . nbsp From NewsOK Oklahoma's Cameron University guarantees quality of its graduates If an Oklahoma employer identifies a deficiency in core employment areas related to the graduate's major , the university will give the graduate free additional training ,
: Rick Osborn's Continuing Education Blog A discussion of continuing higher education , adult education , training,and related--and some unrelated--Tennessee . topics Thursday , June 30, 2011 This must be the cheapest city in Tennessee Cookeville is among the finalists for the cheapest city in the . country From . Time Penny Pinching Paradise : The Cheapest City in America is Harlingen , Texas There is a place , in these United States , where a loaf of bread will cost you 90 cents . Where a gallon of gas will set you back 2.65. Where you can rent a two-bedroom house for 450 a month . And that place is Harlingen , Texas , pop . 65,000. Runners-up for the cheap-city title included Pueblo , Colo . Pryor Creek , Okla . and Cookeville , Tenn . Meanwhile the most expensive urban areas were ,
: , Rick Osborn's Continuing Education Blog A discussion of continuing higher education , adult education , training,and related--and some unrelated--Tennessee . topics Wednesday , June 29, 2011 And now , we'll hear something from the other side An English professor argues against adult higher . education Hmmmm . nbsp The Center for Law and Social Policy , noting a national decline in the number of high school graduates , advocates for more adult college graduates to meet the country's workforce and economic needs in The Economic Imperative for More Adults to Complete College Frank Donoghue , writing in The Chronicle of Higher Education disagrees with the report . nbsp He questions if adding more adult students is the best answer . He notes that it's hard for adults to finish their degree 
: Rick Osborn's Continuing Education Blog A discussion of continuing higher education , adult education , training,and related--and some unrelated--Tennessee . topics Wednesday , June 29, 2011 That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as . sweet Turns out , maybe , not so much . nbsp From Kimberly Weisul writing in BNET What’s in a Name It’s Not Just Anthony Weiner Who Should Wonder Okay , so your last name isn’t Weiner . Still , your name may hold some important clues to your future , according to research from John Waggoner of Bloomsburg University in . Pennsylvania Previous research has shown that the names parents choose for their children varies with their socioeconomic status and their education level . Waggoner wondered , if , in turn , people’s names also broadcast
: Rick Osborn's Continuing Education Blog A discussion of continuing higher education , adult education , training,and related--and some unrelated--Tennessee . topics Monday , June 27, 2011 I may have mentioned something earlier about liking my iPad Considering a different tablet Here what to ask yourself . From Harry McCracken writing in . Techland Tablets : Why Should Somebody Buy This Instead of an iPad It's been fifteen months since the first iPad shipped . Nearly every sizable company that makes anything that looks even sort of like a computer or a phone has rushed into the market that Apple created . Many of these companies haven't yet shipped the tablets they've announced . Still , a critical mass of major iPad alternatives are now here–tablets such as Motorola's Xoom , RIM's
: Rick Osborn's Continuing Education Blog A discussion of continuing higher education , adult education , training,and related--and some unrelated--Tennessee . topics Friday , June 24, 2011 Continuing education job openings Colleges and universities are hiring continuing . educators Here are some current job postings from the Chronicle of Higher Education and . HigherEdJobs.com Colorado State University Continuing Education Program Manager Palm Beach State College Associate Dean , Trade and Industry Miami Dade College Program Manager , Adult Education Goshen College Executive Director of Adult and Online Programs Lone Star College-Kingwood Director , Continuing Education Southwestern College Vice President for Professional Studies La Salle University Director of Non-Credit Programs
: Rick Osborn's Continuing Education Blog A discussion of continuing higher education , adult education , training,and related--and some unrelated--Tennessee . topics Friday , June 24, 2011 GSBI I'm not sure the three-year degree is a good sounding bad idea yet . nbsp Students may not be voting with their feet yet , but I still think the model has , , ahem legs . After all , nbsp we're driving the first year of college down to the high schools anyway . Although it won't be for everyone . nbsp From Daniel de Cise in The Washington Post Compressed college not catching on The recent proliferation of three-year degrees has heightened interest in accelerated study among college freshmen . But enthusiasm tends to peter . out A lot of students are interested in it , 8221 said Dave McFadden ,
: Rick Osborn's Continuing Education Blog A discussion of continuing higher education , adult education , training,and related--and some unrelated--Tennessee . topics Tuesday , June 21, 2011 Tales of the non-traditional More news about graduate and continuing and adult education . students The Indiana experiment to outsource its degrees for working adults to Western Governors University seems to be working . nbsp It's a shame a state university couldn't have stepped up to deliver this same . service A year later , state branch of online university is thriving Sloan is one of about 1,300 Hoosiers in 86 counties who have enrolled in the online university since Gov . Mitch Daniels signed an executive order creating the branch . He now will be one of its first . graduates It's a milestone the
: Rick Osborn's Continuing Education Blog A discussion of continuing higher education , adult education , training,and related--and some unrelated--Tennessee . topics Tuesday , June 21, 2011 This warms the cockles of my old English major heart Sean Ryan gives us Famous Opening Lines from Novels Updated for the Modern . Age How many of these can you identify Alice was beginning to tire of sitting by her sister on the bank . She took out her iPhone and played Angry Birds for the next three hours . 8221 It is a truth universally acknowledged , that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of an internet startup to call his own . 8221 Call me Ishmael_65.” Ours is essentially a tragic age , so we refuse to take it tragically . Videos of sneezing pandas and narcoleptic cats
: Rick Osborn's Continuing Education Blog A discussion of continuing higher education , adult education , training,and related--and some unrelated--Tennessee . topics Monday , June 20, 2011 When politicans and the wealthy stop sending their kids to college Then you can worry about whether a degree is worth . it Kevin Cary , writing in The New , Republic nails it . Bad Job Market : Why Media Is Wrong About Value Of College Degree Sally Cameron thought she had done everything right . After studying French and Arabic at a tony liberal arts college , she knew that graduate school would help her career chances . But when she hit the job market , her Ivy League management degree didn’t seem to matter . The worst recession in decades had pushed the unemployment rate to nearly 10 percent and good
: Rick Osborn's Continuing Education Blog A discussion of continuing higher education , adult education , training,and related--and some unrelated--Tennessee . topics Monday , June 20, 2011 Summer school enrollments I mentioned earlier that several of my colleagues had mentioned their summer enrollments were down while ours were . up Evidently , this pattern is being repeated nationwide , as this aptly-named piece from Inside Higher Education reports . nbsp I didn't pull it , but the University of Oklahoma's efforts are highlighted . nbsp Seems they centralized the function and had great results . nbsp . Hmmmmm Trendless Summer Last year , many colleges enjoyed record-breaking summer enrollment , growth that was largely attributed to the poor economy and students wanting to get out of
: Rick Osborn's Continuing Education Blog A discussion of continuing higher education , adult education , training,and related--and some unrelated--Tennessee . topics Friday , June 17, 2011 Some relief from regulation Although Inside Higher Ed calls this a setback in the title of its article , like it was a bad thing , this is good . news Getting approval from 49 states to deliver online courses to their residents was going to be daunting . nbsp And even if the legislation was aimed at the bad guys , the rest of us get caught at . well Possible Setback for Program Integrity Rules A bill that would repeal two Education Department program integrity rules the federal definition of a credit hour and the requirement that colleges and universities be authorized in every state in which they
The proliferation of new technologies and internet tools is fundamentally changing the way we live and work. The lifelong learning sector is no exception with technology having a major impact on teaching and learning. This in turn is affecting the skills needs of the learning delivery workforce. Last September, together with Jenny Hughes I undertook [...]