Posted on 08/14/2020 4:32:47 AM PDT by karpov
Looking back, the course I took on French Impressionism has helped me when I visit museums. The course on explorers was also interesting. However psychology, biology, chemistry, and philosophy were duds or worse. This was during a year at an Ivy League school. I was confused and lost and met buddah and moonies there. Thankfully I met the Lord some years later or I’d undoubtedly be dead.
#5 I am confused with your post. Near as I can figure you got the clap and ‘g’ from whores in Germany?.... : )
A key book in this area is Clayton Christensen’s “Disrupting Class”. Massive change will come to higher ed.
I’ve always been an advocate for testing for technical, engineering and trade jobs. It would be great for government hiring, and we’d see fewer communists fastened to government positions.
Google has a free program now, and Walmart has a free online program for their employees.
Google Offers 100,000 Scholarships - Here’s How To Get One
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Google Offers 100,000 Scholarships - Here’s How To Get One
Zack Friedman
Zack FriedmanContributor
Personal Finance
Google is now offering 100,000 scholarships. Here’s how you can get one.
Here’s what you need to know.
Google Scholarships
Google is giving away 100,000 scholarships so you can earn an online certificate in these three areas:
data analytics;
project management; and
user experience (UX) design
Here’s the kicker: Google will treat these online Google Career Certificates as the equivalent of a four-year degree. Yes, the equivalent of a four-year degree if you apply for a related role at Google.
Google Career Certificates
There are three new Google Career Certificates that you can earn:
Recommended For You:
1. Data Analytics
Google says that data analysts can earn $66,000 a year (median) and analyze data and make data-driven recommendations to inform essential business decisions. The certificate provides the tools for “navigating the data lifecycle using tools and platforms to process, analyze, visualize and gain insights from data.”
2. Project Management
Google says that project managers can earn $93,000 a year (median) and help plan and oversee projects efficiently. Google says this online certificate focuses on “the foundations of traditional project management, while also offering insight into agile project management.”
3. User Experience (UX) Design
Google says a UX designer can earn $75,000 a year (median) and help create a simpler, more accessible and more enjoyable experience for users. Google says this online certificate provides “the foundations of UX design and research, building low-fidelity designs and wireframes, creating high-fidelity prototypes and testing.”
These three new programs follow the Google IT Certificate, which Google launched in 2018.
Back in the ‘80s some colleges were offering college degrees through “Work Life Experience”. I looked into it. So the concept has been around a while. Pass the tests (they weren’t easy from what I could tell) and get a degree. I didn’t follow through, but knew I was better equipped to do many of the jobs where I worked than most of those with degrees. Sometimes learning OTJ is more productive than sitting in lectures.
Just use the SAT. Make it mandatory before granduating HS. Top 5%, collect college degree or equivalent cert.
Top 10%-5% get certified as Junior. Take one year of senior-level courses, get degree.
Top 15%-10% ditto as Sophmores.
Top 20-15% get in as Freshman
Everyone below, find a tradeschool.
But, but, but...
I just spent $25,000 per year for 5 years to buy this School Tie from your Prestigious Institution that is supposed to guarantee me access to “all the best jobs”.
Now you tell me that some Bozo from Flyover Country can take a test to prove he has the same skills & abilities as I and can do that same job just as well?
It’s not FAIR!
How about a test to show a college degree was actually earned at a college level? Most colleges are below High School level educations.
“ust use the SAT.”
The SAT has been dumbed down since at least 1979. Even then the average score is now well below 1000, idiocy levels.
Georgia Tech is offering a Masters Degree in Computer Science, On-line, for $7,500. Total!
One of the credentials you get with a degree is proving you can stick to something. Do the hard work, stay with the program, get a 4 year degree. There’s no way of testing out of that.
It does t matte what your IQ is you need formal learning and a way to prove you have grasped necessary information. I know a lot of very smart oriole that know. if it about medicine because they lack the education/training
Well, I’m not suggesting that if you have an IQ of 145 at age 18 that we just hand you a medical degree and say “You’re a neurosurgeon”.
But I am suggesting that if a company is looking for junior sales associate, and someone walks in with an IQ of 145, it’s probably safe to hire them if they actually want the job. Too many companies just reject people “You need a college degree”. That’s foolish in many cases. The ability to learn is more important that 4-years of indoctrination. At least some kids come out of college determined not to learn anything more. Why should they?? They already know it all.
A young, bright kid with an eagerness to learn a job is priceless.
Absolutely. but some fields require college or equivalent. i
Want an Engineering “GED”? Just pass the two eight hour professional exams. A fair number of serious students could pass the first one if they prepared for it. The second one - not so much.
Buy a computer and it will teach you to swear for free : )
>>Buy a computer and it will teach you to swear for free : )<<
The difference between inexperienced and experienced ability. The inexperienced learns to swear from the computer. We experienced TEACH the computer to swear.
:)
>>2. Project Management
Google says that project managers can earn $93,000 a year (median) and help plan and oversee projects efficiently.<<
Not enough to pay for resisting the ongoing desire to blow your brains out as PM.
The first thing to do is get a PMP so you will not only know what not to do but also who not to get for PM.
In the real world that is.
First it has to teach me to say, "Hello World!"
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