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Courses for professionals see fewer takers this year
New Delhi: India’s business schools, which expect to see a cooling in placement activity in the coming season in the wake of the global economic slowdown and the collapse of several investment banks that hired from at least some of them, are waking up to the prospect of a sharp fall in revenue from management development programmes or MDPs, because of the same reason.
Revenue from MDPs, typically targeted at companies, has grown significantly in past years but officials at B-schools admit that this would be lower or, at best, the same this year. In an attempt to cope with the slowdown, firms are cutting overall spending on training their executives at B-school courses for professionals.
A professor associated with MDPs at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, which earned approximately Rs45 crore from its MDPs last year, told Mint on condition of anonymity that “a couple of executive programmes in the financial services sector…had been postponed due to the company involved cutting down on its expenses”. He declined to share details.
Abhoy Ojha, chairperson of MDPs at IIM Bangalore declined comment.
IIM Lucknow was more forthcoming. Its revenue from MDPs was Rs5.46 crore till September this year, against last year’s Rs9.49 crore. Abhishek Nirjar, chairperson (MDPs) and strategic management group at IIM-L said the figures dipped because the State Bank of India withdrew from the programmes this year. “We trained about 500 executives from SBI last year. This would have translated to more revenue if they hadn’t backed out.”
The International Management Institute (IMI) in New Delhi, has seen a 20% decline in revenue from MDPs. And the Institute of Management Technology in Ghaziabad (IMT), another prominent B-school, has seen a 30% decline.
C.S. Venkata Ratnam, director of IMI said: “Several companies in the retail, oil and steel sector have either deferred or cancelled programmes pledged…earlier.”
Generic programmes targeted at executives appear to have been hit more than company-specific MDPs.
China Distance Education Holdings Limited Reports Fourth Quarter and Fiscal 2008 Results
China Distance Education Holdings Limited (NYSE Arca: DL) ("CDEL", or the “Company"), a leading provider of online education in China focusing on professional education, reported today its unaudited financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year ended September 30, 2008. Such unaudited financial results are our estimates, and our audited full fiscal year results could differ materially from the estimates provided below. These results may, for example, become subject to adjustments based upon, among other things, completion of our full year reporting processes. For additional information regarding the various risks and uncertainties inherent in estimates of this type, see the section entitled “Safe Harbor Statement” below in this press release.
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APSU celebrates National Distance Learning Week
National Distance Learning Week (NDLW) began Monday, Nov. 10, and will continue through Friday, Nov. 14. The Center for Extended and Distance Education has planned several events in recognition.
Nationwide Statistics
According to the United States Distance Learning Association (USDLA), “NDLW seeks to promote and celebrate the tremendous growth and accomplishments occurring today in distance learning programs offered by schools, businesses and governmental departments.”
The USDLA reports over 3.5 million college students are taking online courses and/or earning their degrees online.
They report that 40.7 percent of schools offering online courses agree “students are at least as satisfied” with their online courses, 56.2 percent are neutral and only 3.1 percent disagree. “E-Learning,” or online learning, represents about 10 percent of the overall training and educational market.
Activities
The Center for Extended and Distance Education planned events for NDLW. A student online scavenger hunt started Monday and will end at midnight, Thursday, Nov. 13. Prizes include an iPod shuffle. USDLA-sponsored “webinars” will be held each day of the week in the Felix G. Woodward Library room 114. These webinars feature topics related to distance education and its future goals.
A listening session with President Timothy Hall will also be held Friday, Nov. 14 in the Felix G. Woodward Library room 114.
Other sessions will be held throughout the week, including “Understanding Quizzes in D2L” with Robert Anderson, instructional technologist of Extended and Distance Education, and “iTunes Introduction” with Katherine Bailey, Extended and Distance Education multimedia specialist. For additional information and a complete list of the week’s activities visit the Center for Extended and Distance Education Web site.
APSU Distance education
The center offered its first online courses during the Fall 2002 semester. Only three courses were offered at the time. Thirty students were enrolled in online courses, and there were 38 total enrollments.
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Achieving a Travel Education Without The Travel
Travel – the heart and soul of the hospitality industry – is missing from the agendas of thousands of industry professionals as they strive to further their careers in management, development, marketing and finance.
Travel, in fact, is often the very last thing on their minds.
Engrossed in coursework designed to prepare them to to move up in a hotel’s chain of command, these employees have been busy ordering up the academic equivalent of room service: Distance learning that delivers textbooks, videos, resource materials and whatever else they need directly to their door – or even to their desktop.
“This is a nice way to learn if you can’t get to a campus,” said Bob Davies, graduate program director at the University of Wisconsin-Stout, which is in the process of shelving and retooling its online coursework in the school’s Hospitality and Tourism program, which added distance learning a decade ago.
“Because the industry requires you to work unusual hours, attending a campus class just doesn’t work,” said Davies. “And there is some rigidity even with tech schools and universities that you have to be available.”
With distance learning, of course, students are very much available – as long as they can accomplish their tasks at their own convenience and their own location.
Though globe-trotters, national travelers and even regional tourists are a driving force in the hospitality industry, staying put to enhance knowledge about about this industry is by no means an anomaly. In many cases, it is has become an occupational necessity.
The American Hotel & Lodging Association recognized this back in 1953 with the founding of its Educational Institute, at the time a formative formal program for hospitality education.
“At that time, its purpose was to provide distance learning courses in the 1950s,” said Elizabeth Johnson, marketing manager. “Correspondence school was in its heyday back then. For people who could not afford college or could not take the time from their hotel job to get additional training to get ahead, the educational institute met that need. It was founded for that purpose at that time.”
Although hotel schools now exist at university campuses in Johnson & Wales in Rhode Island, Purdue University, Cornell University, the University of Houston and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, AH&LA’s institute still offers traditional correspondence-school style coursework in certificate and diploma programs for working professionals. (For more conventional graduate and undergraduate students in classrooom-based hospitality management programs at many of these two-year and four-year schools, the institute also provides an array of professionally authored textbooks.)
In recent years, the institute’s traditional mail-based curriculum has gotten plugged into the Internet, where working professionals have the same options as their mail-based counterparts, to learn – and later take their exams for certification – in a self-paced environment online. The institute has a more intense Hospitality Operations certification program, as well as two diploma programs – one in Hospitality Management and one in Food and Beverage Management. And next year the institute will launch a new specialization – Spa Management – also to be offered online.
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Distance Learning Program changes name, leadership
Liberty University Chancellor Jerry Falwell Jr. recently named four new vice presidents and two new admissions heads, including changes in resident recruitment and LU’s rapidly growing online education program.
As part of the administrative changes, Falwell announced that the school’s distance learning program will be renamed Liberty University Online.
Falwell said the new name much more accurately describes the experience of students in the program today.”
Liberty’s non-residential students take coursework via the Internet.
“I have met many students who moved to Lynchburg to attend Liberty University but soon transferred to the online program in order to meet employment and family obligations,” Falwell said. “Many online students are not distant from Liberty at all. They simply require more flexibility in their lives and are not able to attend traditional classes during the workday. It is no longer a distance learning program.
It is an Internet-based online educational experience. The new name is much more descriptive of the student experience.”
Liberty Vice Chancellor Ronald S. Godwin said the changes were triggered in part by the resignation of Ron Kennedy, the current executive director of distance learning and graduates studies. Kennedy recently accepted a similar position at Myers University in Ohio.
As of Oct. 27, LU’s online enrollment stood at 24,500. School officials project growth to 37,000 students by the end of the fiscal year in June.
To fill the void left by Kennedy’s departure, Falwell Jr. decided to promote Resident Recruitment Executive Director Chris Johnson to the new post of Vice President for Enrollment Management.
“In this capacity, he will assume oversight for both resident and online education,” Godwin said.
Johnson’s current executive director’s post will be assumed by Larry Hoezee.
Kennedy’s executive director post in Liberty University Online will be filled by John Donges.
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UCM hosts Distance Learning Week
The University of Central Missouri joins the United States Distance Learning Association in its celebration of National Distance Learning Week with a UCM campus celebration Nov. 10-14.
The week of events begins with a reception at 11 a.m. Monday in Union 237B. UCM President Aaron Podolefsky will sign the proclamation declaring National Distance Learning Week at UCM at 11:30 a.m., also in Union 237B. The public is invited to attend.
Prior to the signing of the proclamation, Bryan Carter, associate professor of English at UCM, will lead an international conference of speakers on the subject of virtual reality, broadcast from Paris, France, from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. in Union 238B.
Through the virtual world of Second Life, participants can hear guest presentations from around the world, highlighting the global reach of virtual environments in developing the tremendous potential of distance learning. Presentations will be presented in Second Life and in real
life from the University of Paris IV-Sorbonne.
Throughout the week, a variety of special presentations, lectures, demonstrations and training sessions will offer a broad overview of distance learning and its impact on contemporary education.
UCM’s interactive television studios will host an open house Nov. 13 from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. in Wood 17 and 19, and a noon brown bag lunch presentation examines the 2008 Horizon Report in Union 237B.
For a full schedule of Distance Learning Week activities, visit, www.ucmo.edu/dlw.
Distance Learning Week at UCM is sponsored by the School of Graduate and Extended Studies and the Office of Information Technology and Instruction.
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No higher degree without having basic ones says SC
NEW DELHI: In the age of the open university system of distance education where one can get a higher degree without having basic ones, this
ruling from the Supreme Court has come as a dampner.
To the question — whether a candidate, who has got a post-graduate degree from an open university without completing his graduation, be eligible to be admitted to the LLB course requiring graduation as an educational qualification — the apex court’s answer was an emphatic ‘no’.
Upholding Guru Nanak Dev University’s contention and setting aside a Punjab and Haryana High Court verdict, a Bench comprising Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan and R V Raveendran said once the minimum eligibility criterion was a regular graduation degree, the stipulation could not be side-stepped by a post-graduation degree from an open university.
Appealing against the HC order directing it to admit Sanjay Kumar Katwal to the LLB course on the basis of his post-graduation degree through the distance education from Annamalai University, GNDU said it recognised the regular and correspondence course degrees conferred by Annamalai University but not the ones obtained through the open university system. Counntering GNDU’s stand, Katwal argued before the Bench that the distance education system included correspondence courses and therefore post-graduation through correspondence was equivalent to the regular MA degree.
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HC stays Mylarappas reinstatement
The High Court on Friday issued a stay on the reinstatement of Professor B C Mylarappa as Director of Correspondence Courses and Distance Education in the Bangalore University.
Hearing the petition filed by K N Mahendra, Director of Correspondence Course and Distance Education in Bangalore University, Justice Anand Byrareddy issued a stay on the resolution of the Syndicate meeting of Bangalore University on October 25 revoking the suspension order of Mylarappa and reinstating him as director.
The petitioner has pinpointed that Mylarappa had suppressed facts in the Supreme Court, which is why the SC allowed Bangalore University to reinstate him on the basis of which the Syndicate made the resolution.
The petitioner has submitted that he was appointed as Director of Correspondence Course and Distance Education on September 25, 2007, for a term of three years, and if Mylarappa is reinstated, the petitioner’s service would be disturbed.
Further, Mylarappa had contested in the recent Assembly elections and submitted his resignation. Therefore, he cannot be reinstated, the petitioner argued. The government and BU had reinstated him without considering his resignation as director, the petitioner said.
Meanwhile, the police are investigating the case on Mylarappa about the alleged misappropriation of funds.
The State Accounts department has indicated that the fund was misappropriated during Mylarappa’s tenure, but the university has not considered the case, the petitioner contended.
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Dubai International Academic City Seeks to Capitalise on e-Learning Boom
Dubai International Academic City (DIAC), the region’s leading destination of higher education and a member of TECOM Investments, today announced its capabilities to capitalise on the prolific growth of online education that the region is currently witnessing.
DIAC offers a range of online education programmes through some of the world’s most prestigious universities such as The University of Exeter, UK; University of Phoenix, US; Manchester Business School, US, and JSS Mahavidyapeetha, India and Universitas 21 Global, Singapore.
Dr Ayoub Kazim, Executive Director, Dubai International Academic City and Dubai Knowledge Village, said: “The earlier perception that online and distance learning programmes do not find favour with the academic community at large is being quickly outmoded with the concept taking a steady foothold in the educational system over the past 20 years. Widely recognized by the educational community and international bodies worldwide, distance learning is in many ways a welcome phenomenon as it holds enormous promise for enriching education.”
The global growth of e-learning is significant across the board and according to figures in a recent US study titled Online Nation: Five Years of Growth in Online Learning by the Sloan Consortium, online enrolments achieved a 9.7 per cent growth rate compared to 1.5 per cent growth of the overall higher education student population.
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Online Masters Teaching Degrees
In general, teachers with master’s degrees earn more. If you are already a teacher who is trying to reach the next level of your profession, owning a master’s teaching degree can put you at an advantage edge on your career ladder. With a master’s teaching degree in hand, you can enjoy a better salary, job security, and retirement benefits.
Teachers who are interested to pursue a master’s degree in education for their career advancement, but do not want to give their pay check during the period of earning the master degree; then online master’s degree programs match perfectly the requirement of this interest group because most online master degrees allow the greatest flexibility that can fit into almost any schedule. And, the students of online master’s degree programs can logon to the classes from their preferred location, this eliminate the hassle of the need to travel to and from the school as needed in the traditional classroom-based setting.
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Tri-state colleges growing online
The world of online education flows from around the country into many local post-secondary institutions.
While some distance-education programs have offered a wide variety of online classes and programs for quite some time, others have only started to dabble in the practice.
The following is a history of how local post-secondary institutions began their foray into online education.
University of Wisconsin-Platteville
The southwest Wisconsin university got it all started in 1999 with a single online master’s degree program.
The first online program at UW-P was the Masters of Science and Project Management.
“At that point, the market was starting to show that online education was going to be a formidable force in education,” said Les Hollingsworth, UW-P’s corporate marketing director for the distance learning center.
The Internet allowed the university to extend its reach nationwide and offer programs that would be difficult to provide on campus.
“It was a great way to offer graduate education that the campus simply couldn’t fulfill based on the population density in this area,” Hollingsworth said. “The online allowed us to reach out to a much, much larger geographic area to fulfill that need.”
Today, UW-P offers five online programs and has about 2,200 students from around the country enrolled in the Web-based programs.
Northeast Iowa Community College
NICC started to offer a small selection of online courses in 2000. Those first students and instructors who agreed to go online were the matriculating equivalent of guinea pigs for online education at the college.
“It was kind of sink or swim,” said NICC’s Jill Ferrie, director of distance learning.
From that first semester to 2006, more professors agreed to offer their classes online as well as on the campus.
With the growth of student demand came the growth of the college’s Web-based programs.
“Our mission is community focused, student-driven,” Ferrie said. “The student’s demand for online has grown.”
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BMCC closes distance with online education
Gregg Berlie’s Wednesday morning introduction to literature class was a hybrid of sorts - bringing distance education and face-to-face students into the same literary discussion.
With about 10 students present in Berlie’s Morrow Hall classroom, about as many others participated at home by computer and Internet connection, listening as a noise-suppression microphone picked up what was being said in class.
Online students, in turn, had the option of joining in either by text messages from their keyboard or speaking into their own microphone pieces.
One distance education student in particular, Sheila, used her keyboard to contribute several comments and questions that appeared on a projected computer screen in front of the classroom.
Berlie said he had one class session in which two online students got into a side discussion using text chats - which appeared on screen.
“While I’m talking everybody else in class is watching these two students carry on their own discussion about what I’m talking about,” Berlie said.
The software making it all happen was Elluminate Live, a program now being used to conduct writing and math classes, as well. This is the third year BMCC has used the program for online classes, but the first year in which it’s been used in combination with face-to-face teaching.
“This has been absolutely fantastic because the students out there now have a voice,” Berlie said.
Instructor Cathy Muller also began using Elluminate Live to teach her Math 111 class. Using another product called the mimio, Muller can use a white board pen that captures the image onto a computer screen. Example problems and equations that she draws show up in real time for people watching at a computer terminal.
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Accredited Silver State High School offers online education
Coming and going is more irregular than a traditional high school, but the students attending Silver State High School still have to get the work done.
“It’s not a gimme,” said SSHS Principal Steve Knight, the brainchild for the blueprint of SSHS.
There is less teenage angst common in traditional schools, and discipline problems, while rare, can be resolved quickly by simply sending the student home, according to some of the teachers and students of the free, charter school located in north Carson City.
In the five years the school has been open, Knight said only four parent complaints have been made.
“There’s not a whole lot of angry kids walking around here,” said senior Dane Hexberg, who said he often was bored and unchallenged when he attended a traditional high school. “There’s more freedom.”
The typical student at SSHS is outgoing and wants to get their work done, said Hexburg.
Billing itself as “Nevada’s First Statewide Virtual High School,” the atmosphere is likened to a college approach, where students are largely in charge of how many hours they spend at the school – located at U.S. 395 and College Parkway – or working online. The only requirement is one day a week for four hours.
Online education
The school is an online distance education high school where students may be separated by time and location, but technology can bridge that gap. Most class work can be done online. It ranges from straightforward material to interactive, real-time experiences, such as a streaming Web cam lecture.
According to the school’s Web site, students can also phone or “contact their teachers using instant messaging during the day and into the early evening whenever they need help.”
“That’s why they love it. We are so high-tech,” said Vice Principal Alan Staggs.
The school is open Monday through Friday from 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. to accommodate different schedules. In July 2006, SSHS was accredited by the Northwest Association of Accredited Schools, the same accrediting body of any other area traditional high school.
This means a diploma is acknowledged as equal to one from any other accredited school, Knight said.
“I think it is wonderful,” said Joy Hexberg, Dane’s mother who has sent all three of her sons to SSHS. “It is an alternative for students to be responsible for themselves.”
Hexberg’s oldest son started attending SSHS because the family was big into BMX racing and needed to travel often. She said it turned into a real blessing in disguise for her boys.
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A new kind of distance learning
The North Platte Telegraph
A group of students, teachers and administrators from Mid-Plains Community College recently experienced a new type of distance learning as they traveled to North Lindsey College in Lincolnshire, England.
In April, a similar group of students enrolled in the automotive programs at North Lindsey College came to North Platte to work with the students and staff at MPCC and learn about American-style auto mechanics.
These trips are part of a Global Education Partnership Agreement between the two colleges that was officially signed in November of last year when administrators from North Lindsey College visited North Platte.
According to the agreement, the purpose of the partnership is to develop academic cooperation and exchange between to two colleges in order to promote relationships among students, faculty, administration and board members.
This was the first group from MPCC to travel to England as part of this partnership. The group returned to North Platte on Oct. 9 after spending eight days over in the United Kingdom.
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“It was a great cultural experience,” said Rachael Tuggle, who is second year automotive student at MPCC.
Tuggle was the only female student to participate in the trip. She said she really loved the experience, and she would love to have the chance to do it again.
“I learned a lot actually,” Tuggle said.
While the students spent a lot of time in class, they also got to do a little sightseeing. Tuggle said they toured an old castle as well as the historical city of York. She noted they saw several churches and abbeys.
“It was amazing,” Tuggle said. “The architecture was awesome.”
Dustin Howard, who is a second year auto body student at MPCC, had never been out of the United States before going on this trip. As a result, he said he experienced a little bit of culture shock.
“There’s just a really big difference in the way people live,” Howard said.
He noted the people in England are much more environmentally friendly. He said this is evident not only in their efforts to produce more fuel-efficient vehicles, but also in the materials they use to build their vehicles.]
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College goes distance for learning
College courses are now just a computer click away at the Wayne County Community College District (WCCCD).
The college is now offering more courses and programs through the Distance Learning Division, where options for taking classes are beyond the traditional classroom, according to officials.
It allows people the ability to pursue higher education anywhere and in multiple locations, said Dr. Stephanie Bulger, vice-chancellor in the center for distance education and learning technology. It doesn’t mean it’s easier, but course it’s flexible and can be taken anywhere in the world.
The distance learning division offers academic credit courses and programs through three primary venues—online, interactive television and live interactive online—as an alternative to the classroom. The division also offers non-credit courses for professional development through the e-learning center and, gives high school students the opportunity to jumpstart their college career by taking online courses through the Virtual Middle College, officials said.
It’s real-time interaction so it affords the students the ability to remain in the local region and connect, said Bulger.
Courses and programs offered online cover a broad range of areas, like entrepreneurship, surgical technology, hotel management, homeland security, project management, allied health and computer information systems.
Students can select from the numerous online course offerings and gain flexible access to high quality education wherever they are located through Wayne County, the State of Michigan, around the country and around the world, according to the college.
It’s geared toward learners of all types, said Bulger. We have high school students taking online courses, university students who need extra courses; it’s high quality at a reasonable cost.
It provides opportunities for working professionals who want to expand and students to complete a certificate program. It’s changed the way students participate and the way they learn, she added. It’s available 24-7 at different times, there’s a high level of interaction and I think it’s really the most dramatic change in education.
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Distance Education Council Bill referred to GoM
A Bill seeking to make Distance Education Council (DEC) a statutory body was today referred to a Group of Ministers for consideration by the Union Cabinet.
The Cabinet took this decision after objections were raised by a number of ministers, including Commerce and Industry Minister Kamal Nath, over the proposal of the HRD ministry to set up a new and independent regulator in the form of a 19-member DEC.
According to the proposal, the DEC would monitor and regulate the standards of open learning across the country and also keep a watch on all open learning institutes, including the regular institutes that offer correspondence courses.
HRD Minister Arjun Singh, who has been strongly batting for the DEC Bill, reportedly did not press for it in the cabinet meeting, where at least three ministers expressed their reservations over it.
“While giving their opinions, the ministers noted their disagreement with certain parts of the Bill after which the matter was referred to GoM,” a union minister told reporters.
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Watchdog for distance education before Cabinet
NEW DELHI, OCTOBER 15 The distance education sector is all set to get a new and independent regulator in the form of a 19-member Distance Education Council (DEC). The legislation for the constitution of DEC, which will monitor and regulate the standards of open learning across the country, will come up for Cabinet approval on Thursday.
While a DEC already exists under the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), the new regulator will be a statutory body independent of the central university.
Besides monitoring courses conducted via satellite-based channels and Internet courses, the new DEC is proposed to keep a close watch on all open learning institutes, including the regular institutes that offer correspondence courses. The new DEC will also be empowered to check fake institutions or institutions imparting sub-standard education.
De-linking of DEC from IGNOU had been a long-pending demand by universities offering Distance Education Programmes (DEPs), as they felt that the university, which itself was conducting such courses, should not prescribe norms for them.
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New courses by CBSE fail to impress students
The two courses — General Health Care and Creative Writing and Translation Studies — introduced by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) at the senior secondary level have failed to find many takers in the city schools. School authorities explained that as most students still opt for the traditional streams of science and commerce, not many are venturing into the new fields.
The CBSE had invited schools to begin a new course, General Health Care, under the vocational stream, in collaboration with the relevant industry/organisation from the academic session 2008-09. The Board had decided to start the course to produce skilled workforce for the Health Industry.
The General Health Care, which comprises three vocational subjects like anatomy and physiology, food, nutrition and dietetics among others, still does not feature in the list of many schools.
“Students continue to have their bent of mind towards science, humanities and commerce. The minimum requirement to start any new course is 15 students, which was not fulfilled as students did not opt for the course,” says Dr Rakesh Sachdeva, principal, DAV Model School, Sector 15.
Another course introduced by the Board that has failed to generate interest among students is Creative Writing and Translation Studies. Started in 2007-08, even after one year, city schools do not have the course as one of the elective subjects.
According to the Board, the course aims at equipping the students with higher order skills such as critical analysis, deconstructing texts and interpretation that will help them gain an insight into the creative processes undertaken by fiction and non-fiction writers.
Further, students will also be introduced to the nuances of language and techniques needed for different genres such as short stories, screenplays, poetry, drama and biography which would enable them to sharpen their creative skills.
Says an English teacher, at a government school where the subject is not an option, “Students find subjects like psychology and economics more interesting. They feel that these subjects can be pursued during graduation. That explains why creative writing is not much in demand.”
eLearners.com Helps Students Avoid Diploma Mills
eLearners.com, a web resource of EducationDynamics, today announced its comprehensive resource to help prospective and current students avoid diploma mills. Diploma mills pose online as a legitimate university and then take advantage of unsuspecting students by offering programs. To help students, eLearners.com offers resources on how to spot a diploma mill program, located at
The deceitful practices were alarming enough that President George Bush signed the “College Opportunity and Affordability Act” into law on August 14, 2008, which includes the establishment of a Diploma Mill Task Force. The task force will create a plan to help eradicate the sale and use of fake degrees, but until that plan is in action students need to watch out for deceptive practices.
“Diploma mills just want your money and don’t care if you get the education you are looking for to advance your career,” said Terrence Thomas, EVP Marketing Operations at EducationDynamics. “Online education is a perfect solution for many people, but you have to make sure the program you sign up for is accredited. In today’s tight economy every dollar counts, so make sure you’re spending money on a degree that’s part of a legitimate program.”
Although it is hard to determine an exact number of diploma mills, John Bear, an author and expert in the field of distance learning, said that in 2004 there were more than 300 unaccredited universities. To help spot a diploma mill and not pay money to a bogus institution, eLearners.com offers these tips:
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eLearners.com, a web resource of EducationDynamics
eLearners.com, a web resource of EducationDynamics, today announced its comprehensive resource to help prospective and current students avoid diploma mills. Diploma mills pose online as a legitimate university and then take advantage of unsuspecting students by offering programs. To help students, eLearners.com offers resources on how to spot a diploma mill program, located at
The deceitful practices were alarming enough that President George Bush signed the “College Opportunity and Affordability Act” into law on August 14, 2008, which includes the establishment of a Diploma Mill Task Force. The task force will create a plan to help eradicate the sale and use of fake degrees, but until that plan is in action students need to watch out for deceptive practices.
“Diploma mills just want your money and don’t care if you get the education you are looking for to advance your career,” said Terrence Thomas, EVP Marketing Operations at EducationDynamics. “Online education is a perfect solution for many people, but you have to make sure the program you sign up for is accredited. In today’s tight economy every dollar counts, so make sure you’re spending money on a degree that’s part of a legitimate program.”
Although it is hard to determine an exact number of diploma mills, John Bear, an author and expert in the field of distance learning, said that in 2004 there were more than 300 unaccredited universities. To help spot a diploma mill and not pay money to a bogus institution, eLearners.com offers these tips:
More : marketwatch.com