How to Prepare For a New Career without Quitting Your Job?
December 17th, 2011
If you are already working full time and want to change your career, you can opt for various online degree programs. Distance learning offers you maximum flexibility so that you can plan your schedule and study at your own pace.
Preparing For a New Career without Discontinuing Your Job
Students choose online degree programs for various reasons; predominantly due to the convenience they offer. For those working full time, online degrees help them in developing a career or in revamping their existing one without discontinuing their existing jobs and allows them to avoid a break of two- or four-year from work which they would otherwise have had to take in order to pursue higher education.
Online colleges help you to opt for online degrees at any place and can help you complete the course from the comfort of your home.
Tags: Career, Career Quitting
Posted in School Advisory | No Comments »
Functional recipes (strategies) for success at McDonalds UK
December 16th, 2011
Love them or loathe them, its hard to deny that McDonalds has really got its act together in the UK and is thriving in a tough environment for consumer spending. This excellent article from the Independent features an interview with Jill McDonald (no relation to the original founder!) describes some of the key functional strategies that the business has adopted which are credited with improved business performance.
Lots for business students (and their teachers) to get their teeth into here. Among the key strategies adopted are:
- Redesign and renovation of location interiors, with renewed focus on families (marketing & ops) – Wider menu choice, including some healthier options (marketing & ops) – Free WIFI (marketing) – High level of training, including extended apprentice programmes – Increased proportion of locations which are franchises (up from 40% in 2006 to 65% now)
Well worth a read.
Tags: Mcdonalds, Mcdonalds Uk
Posted in School Notes | No Comments »
Eder on board at Marco Island Academy with one-year contract
December 10th, 2011
Marco Island Academy’s new art teacher Rob Eder in his art classroom. Nori St. Paul/Eagle Correspondent
Marco Island Academy’s newest teacher Michael Doherty. Nori St. Paul/Eagle Correspondent
— Marco Island Academy continues to strengthen its foundation, according to board member Chris Schemel, and recently hired two new teachers.
Former Marco Island Charter Middle School teacher Rob Eder signed a one year contract with the charter high school. Eder recently returned from North Carolina, where according to Schemel, he taught, and also ran a business for the past five years. He taught with the charter middle school here for five years before that.
According to the middle school’s principal of 12 years, George Abounader, while Eder taught there, “He was a diverse and excellent teacher.”
Eder is certified to teach art, social studies and English.
The second new educator at the high school is Michael Doherty, the science teacher.
Tags: Academy, Island Academy, Marco Island, Marco Island Academy
Posted in School Advisory | No Comments »
Businesses, philanthropies give $2 million to Shelby County school merger effort
December 5th, 2011
Schools in Transition
Thursday’s approval of a $2.2 million budget and $1.7 million consulting contract by the Shelby County’s school merger Transition Planning Commission revealed the costs and scope of the planning that will go into consolidating Memphis City Schools with Shelby County Schools.
The 21-member transition commission’s budget includes $2 million that has been donated by local businesses, corporations and philanthropies, with the bulk of that total now committed to a contract with Boston Consulting Group.
Donors listed in a news release are FedEx, First Tennessee Bank, AutoZone, Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare, Hyde Family Foundations and Community Foundation of Greater Memphis, plus unnamed donors who wished to remain anonymous.
The contract, negotiated by commissioner Christine Richards, who is also executive vice president and general counsel for FedEx, outlines a hectic work schedule that calls for options on critical decisions outlined by the end of February and determinations made by the end of April.
One example is how to structure the district: Should it be centralized or decentralized into what the contract calls “regions, clusters, networks?” If so, how much authority or autonomy would be spread throughout the county?
That is vital, according to the contract language, because whatever model is chosen “will inform many committees’ work.”
The Shelby County Schools Education Foundation, which has served the suburban district, is acting as the commission’s conduit for incoming and outgoing funds.
Tags: Merger, School Merger, Shelby County
Posted in School Notes | No Comments »
Bullying and Social Media among Teens
November 30th, 2011
We continue to collect statistics about bullying both in person and via text and the internet. A new study entitled Teens, Kindness and Cruelty on Social Networks indicates that more kids are bullied in person than in virtual environments. In fact, the study conducted by the Pew Internet and American Life Project for the Family Online Safety Institute concluded that most young people are kind to one another on social networks.
The statistics align closely with previous scientific surveys on bullying and cyberbullying. The largest source of bullying (12 percent) was in person, followed by text messaging (9 percent). Eight percent said they had been bullied via email, a social networking site or instant messaging and 7 percent were bullied via voice calls on the phone. Girls are more likely to have experienced what we typically call cyberbullying, while boys and girls are roughly equal when it comes to in person bullying.
According to the study, more young people are stepping in when they witness bullying.
Tags: Teens
Posted in School Notes | No Comments »
Admission Rejected after Pre-Application – Fall 2012
November 30th, 2011
I am a big fan of yours. I would like to share my experience and ask you some questions. Hope you will help me. I am planning to apply for Food Technology for fall 2012.
I have filled pre-application for same graduate program in few universities (which is present in specific graduate program website). It is a free application in which we have to fill personal details, GRE, TOEFL, GPA. Also we have to write a short SOP about 1000 characters etc., It is only for international students to check the sustainability of original application as original application costs about 100$ which is too costly.
I have GRE score of 800 quants + 370 verbal. There is no minimum GRE requirement mentioned for 1 university. Still i got a mail that i do not meet the requirements. I have GGPA of 8.8/10 and have mentioned 2 publications related to same field. This clearly shows that the universities specific programs put a minimum cut-off for scores though they say there is no minimum cut-off.
- What does this mean?
Tags: 2012, Fall 2012
Posted in Online Education | No Comments »
There is an Eloquence in True Enthusiasm
November 30th, 2011
I really liked Diana Senechal’s recent post over at Open Salon, “Bad Teachers or Bad Curriculum,” and I agree with much of her educational philosophy. However, there’s one little piece of the educational policy puzzle that seems to have fallen on the floor, kicked around a bit, and forgotten. Unfortunately, it’s a corner piece, and the picture isn’t ever going to be complete without it.
Enthusiasm.
I have had teachers who know their stuff, teachers who can recite the periodic table backward and forward all day long but hate having to teach those pesky students. I’ve had monotonous math teachers, wiling away their last two obligatory years before retirement, teachers who taught me more anecdotal lessons about beekeeping than the basics of Algebra II.
Fortunately, I have had more than my share of great teachers, teachers who truly love what they do. Teachers who, even 35 years into their teaching careers, can’t imagine retirement – they can’t even bear teaching the same material more than a year or two in a row for fear of boredom.
Posted in School Advisory | No Comments »