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How important is a Degree to Getting a Job?
In my experience, qualifications help get an interview, burt contrary to what many students think, it is not the qualification, but rather what you learn from studying that is usually the thing that gets you a job or promotion.
I have given over 1,000 degree graduates jobs throughout my career. I currently employ around 40 with degrees (in both Australia and the UK). The importance of having a degree might account for 10% -other things are far more important such as their knowledge, skills, ability to problem solve, communication skills, networking, attitude, -even speed of thinking and working.
It is interesting to ask a job applicant to stuff leaflets in envelopes....some with no degree are neat and fast, some with degrees are clumsy and unbelievably slow. A few months after employing them I have commonly found the slow envelope stuffers are less focussed, less likely to retain instructions and much less productive at work -and this has no correlation to having a degree or not.
There is an underlying bias toward the importance of a degree in Western society; but when you look beneath the surface, much of that importance is overstated.Wise employers know this -but plenty of big businesses fail -so obviously not all employers are necessarily that wise
NEW COURSES
ACS Distance Education Home Study courses
Offers over 400 external study, online training courses and home study courses; including online business certificates, online computer courses, short courses and other flexible learning and alternative education choices. Internationally recognised by the International Accreditation and Recognition Council.
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This school offers different ways to learn through Distance Education:
Traditional Distance Education
A study guide and any necessary text materials are sent to you by post or courier
Pursue reading, research, practical tasks, and assignments as instructed.
Seek & receive tutor support where needed via phone, mail, email or fax; borrow videos, receive personal assistance as required on a one to one basis
Submit assignments by either email, fax or mail; and receive expert feedback.
Sit optional exams, if you so choose.
Online Learning
ACS Distance Education already offers hundreds of courses by traditional correspondence study and has thousands of students currently studying from all around the world. At ACS, we recognise the abilities online training provide and are therefore expanding our courses to be offered over the Internet. The advantages with the ACS online training system are:
Start your course anywhere, anytime
Full support and guidance from qualified tutors
Enjoyable and interesting interactive tests and tutorials
Courses in a variety of subjects and levels
Course notes downloadable so you can work on them while offline
All courses developed by A.C.S. - world leaders in distance education
Video Learning
Select and purchase, or borrow a selection of videos available through the school’s bookshop, or video loan library
Anyone can purchase videos offered for sale through our bookshop
Students who have registered to do any course with ACS can borrow videos from our large range of titles on offer.
CD COURSES
To start your course, you need to begin working on the course materials.
On the main menu list you will find the ‘Course Materials’ button. When you click on this button, 3 more buttons will be displayed:
lessons,
self assessment tests, and
assignments.
Click on ‘lessons’ to begin your study
PROBLEM BASED LEARNING
Every PBL project is carefully designed by experts to expose you to the information and
skills that we want you to learn. When assigned a project, you are given:
A statement of the problem (eg. diseased animal; failing business; anorexia case study);
Questions to consider when solving the problem;
A framework for the time and effort you should spend on the project;
Support from the school.
The problems that you will solve in your course will relate to what you are learning. They are problems that you might encounter when working that field, adapted to your level of study
BLENDED LEARNING
Blended learning is learning that is achieved by combining different modes of study. For example, a student might undertake part of a course by distance education and part by attending lectures in a classroom. Or, part of a course might be taken by traditional distance education, and part through an "e-learning mode" (ie. electronic learning). Electronic learning includes online courses, computer-based training on a CD, or computer-based training delivered via a bank of computers in a classroom.
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