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is a one in a lifetime experience. College education is an important experience people should encounter at some point in their lives, but as the increase of its cost is going up, it is getting unreasonable for people to pay. Therefore the cost of higher education should be reduced to a more reasonable cost. Over the past generations the rise of college education has increased a lot. Tuition pays for the education, the professors, the books and other fees involved. In a recent study, according to…

Higher education facilities are highly focused on cramming information into the minds of their students. Giving the students the ability to then teach the subject. Essentially creating an expert in a certain subject. While expertise is extremely important there are many other skills essential for higher education. Communication skills are immensely important for any person searching for success in their career. Mike Fitzpatrick in his essay “Communication Skills” highlights the importance of…

Ashford-Rowe, K., Herrington, J., & Brown, C. (2014). Establishing the critical elements that determine authentic assessment. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 39(2), 205-222. Kevin Ashford-Rowe is at the learning and teaching center at Australian Catholic University. Janice Herrington is at Murdoch University in Perth, Australia and Christine Brown is a researcher at the University of Wollongong in Australia. This study sought to establish the significant elements of an authentic…

It is with the notion of means tested eligibility that leads Brooks (2015) to argue that the UK’s higher educational system is ‘neo-liberal’ and its welfare system that is beneficial to the lowest income families, suggesting that it is ‘selective’ in who benefits financially. This is mirrored by the findings from NUS (2009) as they found that lone parents are more likely to be successful at accessing financial support in order to study, as opposed to households with a larger income. This…

The pursuit of higher education has been an important part of shaping me as a person and has always held great value to me. When I started college at New York Institute of Technology in the fall of 2007 I was a mix of excited and nervous because I had left my country (Jamaica) to move to the United States to attend college, but I knew that I had so much to learn and was excited for the opportunities that would await me. My freshman year was a great experience and I thrived in my new environment…

It made it impossible for me to leave. My parents are both immigrants and did not have the opportunity or funds to get higher education in their home country or in the United States. This alone took me a huge step back and I quickly realized that life doesn’t always go as planned. Soon after, my already severe scoliosis began to worsen and I began to have an extremely hard…

I started my journey to a higher education and a better career earlier this year. The first step in doing so was to apply and start college, so here I am at the end of my first semester and I am almost finished with English Composition. English was never my strongest subject, in high school I failed my 9th grade English class and college has proved to be no easier. I currently have all A’s in every class but this one, which I struggle to keep it at a B+ and it disappoints me because I know I can…

Growing up in a traditional Mexican household, one is encouraged to work hard and strive to accomplish any goals we put forth for ourselves, but when it comes to education, most parents are barely high school graduates. Therefore, they lack in higher education experience, and as a result their kids at times suffer from it. There is no one to stir them in the right direction or show them the ropes around college life, which often leads to young high school graduates settling from jobs and not…

The Pell Grant: Effects on Higher Education Introduction Both the federal and state governments play a crucial role in helping to finance higher education. While it is true that both levels provide an important amount of aid, it seems that in today’s world the importance of funding given by the federal government has increased. The increase in the reliance on the federal government for funding is a result of the decrease in the amount of appropriations given by the states (Kretovics, 2011).…

Critical Analysis of “Online Higher Education’s Individualist Fallacy” by Johann N. Neem Many students around the country have the ultimate dream to start a higher education. In these days, technology is changing in our society providing the students with efficient access to faster internet, emails, and unlimited access to information. Online and traditional education offer to students a variety of options to achieve an educational success in students. Moreover, certain students choose to take…