Private Institutions: Arguments For and Against

Many modern prospective students follow popular opinion that to give preference in admission is necessary only to state higher education institutions. Of course, the state universities offer many advantages over private, but there are exceptions that make education in the private universities much more profitable and promising.

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International Student Exchange Programs

Experience is one thing you can’t get for nothing.

Oscar Wilde

Student exchange programs between different countries as a form of international cooperation emerged in the late 1940s. Their goal is to enable young people from different countries to get to know each other, learn about the culture of other countries. Their actions for many years all over the world are supported and governed by international organizations. Through these programs, students have the opportunity to visit another country, meet new friends, and learn another culture and to work on a completely legal basis. In this case, you will not only cover the costs of travel, and, if desired, will earn a very decent amount of money.

The most popular student exchange programs are:

Work & Travel USA is the unique cultural exchange program, designed for students who want to learn the culture and traditions of the American nation, pull up conversational English, gain work experience abroad, have fun relax in the company of new friends and explore the open spaces of America. And while more to earn money! Work and Travel has crazy popular among students from 40 countries.

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Homeschooling: Is It Worth to be Tried?

“The home is the first and most effective place to learn the lessons of life: truth, honor, virtue, self-control, the value of education, honest work, and the purpose and privilege of life. Nothing can take the place of home in rearing and teaching children, and no other success can compensate for failure in the home.”

David O. McKay

But what about the other lessons – math, literature, physics, chemistry, biology, etc.? Could they be taught without visiting a school? Statistics say about the growing popularity of homeschooling. Most often, the parents transferred their children to homeschooling, being dissatisfied with the level of education, which is given the child at school, to protect the child from physical and mental abuse at school, not wanting to let the strangers to educate children and deciding to bear full responsibility for the upbringing and education of their child.

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Free Education in European Universities

European education has always been valued highly. Today, the European Diploma of higher education institution can give graduates the opportunity to find a high-paying job, be a great specialist and gain invaluable knowledge and experience. Also the option, when foreign students after graduation stay to live in one of the EU countries, is relevant, which would have been impossible under normal conditions. One way or another, but the admission into the European higher education institution is seen by many foreign students as a good platform for the career development and whole life. But not all can pay for education in a foreign university, so students are looking for different ways to reduce training costs.

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Self-Education: Modern Opportunities for Those Who Want to Learn

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

Jim Rohn

Due to the rapid development of information technology, the emergence of the Internet and access to the unlimited flow of information and data, people today have a variety of options in order to continuously improve their own development, not to stop, but to get new knowledge and skills.

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Higher Education in China

One of the main differences of the XXI century from XX century is that with the development of high technology, including the Internet, the world is open and available to almost everyone, more and more people feel cosmopolitan.

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Endangered Professions

To become an able and successful man in any profession,

three things are necessary: nature, study and practice.

Henry Ward Beecher

The modern world is constantly changing and evolving, causing changes in all spheres of human activity. If earlier surrounding reality was changing very slowly for decades and did not require constant human adjustment, now many things are disappearing, giving way to other technologies and innovations just in a few years.

The information technology has very great influence on professions. So, because of the technology development, the advent of computers and the Internet, many professions are completely irrelevant, and therefore entire departments are eliminated and various aspects of training specialists are removed.

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