Vocational education

not restricted to distance education; it can be held on campus or online by means of attaining a degree or simply for lifelong study. Any institution can provide open learning as long as it accomplishes flexibility in regard to factors such as demography, geography, values and interests, time, and teaching and learning methodologies. According to Shale, the dominant reason for the existence of distance open universities is an “ideological bent toward higher education at a time when people…

In Poland children start their elementary school education at the age of 7 and also are required to take a one year of pre-elementary education in the kindergarten at the age of 6. Another difference between these two systems is the type of schools offered. After middle school, students can choose between a general lyceum, a vocational school or a technical secondary school. Students are admitted to the school depending on the results of their…

Validity of “Changing Education Paradigms” For decades our public school system have taken on the same schedule, day in and day out; and some schools may be accommodating hundreds if not thousands of kids. Most of them arrive to school in the morning, shuttle off to morning class, go to lunch, back to class until school’s out, then it’s time to go home. Unless someone is educating them after school or assisting them with schoolwork, I would bet they are playing with their friends, video games,…

based on self- report surveys provided by the researcher in order to gain feedback and statistics on a certain group of individuals over a course of ten years. The individuals were randomly chosen out of groups of children enrolled in a special education program specifically designed for individuals with ASD in the public school system in different states. This included children coming from all different ethnic, social and economic backgrounds. The research begins with surveying the parents…

Nowadays, most of students will go to a college are various with these reasons like some want to advance their knowledge in education, or some think it sounds nice to pursue a higher education to gain a decent reputation. Undoubtedly, it’s true in many career and education fields, but to consider carefully, Nemko (2009) found colleges love to trumpet the statistic that, over their lifetimes, college graduates earn more than non-graduates. That means colleges tend to exaggerate earning a degree…

since it also is a major influence on other factors, such as health, security, and education. Surprisingly, their adult literacy rate in Kenya, for people fifteen years and older, averages to be about seventy-two point two percent…

pragmatism to be one of the most important influential aspects of education and social reform. As a leader of the educational reform, Dewey’s vision was prompt to meet the needs of a changing democratic society, which he referred to as, “democracy as a way of life” (Gouinlock, 2014). Dewey’s perceptions of education lead to idealism, realism, and practicality for logical reflections over experimental. Dewey reformed fundamental methods to education and his concepts launched change again from a…

a higher education. As the years went by, women started going to college and it became more available for people. College degrees are in high demands of most careers now. I believe that a college education should be easily available for everyone, although college is not for everyone. I believe that a person should have a choice, if they wanted to go to college, to have easy access to a university. The economy is expanding and careers are advancing, so needing a higher level education is…

Over the past decade, abuses by colleges operating in the for-profit education sector have been well documented.1 Buoyed by a tide of government-enabled financing, these for-profit colleges expanded their enrollment from 1990 to 2013 more than ten times faster than did nonprofit or public schools,2 and they widely engaged in aggressive and misleading recruitment and other predatory practices3—all to fill programs that had abysmally low completion and job placement rates. Many students that had…

In his op- ed essay titled, What is a Practical Education? Mr. Murray hopes to convince the reader that universities who narrow or exclude liberal arts and general education courses are on the rise. Thus, the inevitable result will be a direct path to producing workers for a specific job, in a specific field and will not be able to adapt to changes that will inevitably come. Although he himself is a professor and should have first-hand knowledge of statistics that would answer key questions such…