As more academics earn degrees abroad and go back to posts in China, informal networks are created that help outsiders check on the quality of applicants.
Academic Partnerships will do the recruiting for the courses and will receive a share of the tuition the schools get from students who decide to keep going and earn degrees.
Not only are those who take a greater number of online courses less likely to ever earn degrees, new research from Columbia shows that the rise of online education actually widens the achievement gap between demographic groups, with those who struggle in a traditional college setting having an even more difficult time navigating the waters of MOOCs and distance ed.
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A. programs also reported gains globally, benefiting from workers who want to earn advanced degrees without having to leave their jobs.
The scouts said they save the state money by building responsible girls who are more likely to earn college degrees and less likely to go to prison.
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Making it harder for our young people to afford higher education and earn their degrees is nothing more than cutting our own future off at the knees.
The lessons we learned took shape in the Meyerhoff Scholars Program, which has grown into a national model for producing minority students who earn advanced degrees in science, technology, engineering and math.
The UVA situation illustrated the challenges that major elite universities are having in dealing with a new world in which students can earn even advanced degrees in their pajamas.
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Although they grew up and live in a region where women may not be as free as those in the US, they fought hard to earn their advanced degrees and established successful careers in technology.
Although women now earn more first degrees, they mostly still get fewer PhDs (though in America they seem to have caught up), and if they stay on in academia they are promoted more slowly than men.
Perhaps more important to students wondering about their educational future, workers with associate degrees on average earn more money than their counterparts with high school degrees.
So those with degrees, graduate degrees, earn ever more than those who dropped out of high school.
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It is telling them that they ought to go out and earn a string of degrees qualifying them for hard-charging careers that the majority of them eventually discover that they don't actually want.
It's true that those with bachelor's degrees typically earn more over a lifetime than those with a two-year degree, but that's little consolation to those who are discouraged from going to community colleges and end up dropping out of a four-year school without a degree.
Twenty years from now we may still be bemoaning the fact that even though women earn 57% of college degrees, hold 85% of the consumer purchasing purse, are 54% of voters and half the workplace, they're stuck at under one-fifth of congressional, corporate board, and top management seats.
To bring more educators into the classroom, the National Math and Science Initiative is working with Texas Instruments and the Dell Foundation to prepare almost 5, 000 new math and science teachers in the next five years -- through a program that allows young people to earn teaching certificates and science degrees at the same time.
Many enlisted personnel have college degrees (or have joined to earn the money to get one) and many senior enlisted and officers have both undergraduate and graduate degrees.
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Women now earn nearly half of all medical degrees, but the compensation gap has increased in the last decade.
We know that Americans with college degrees far out-earn those without.
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They earn 57% of bachelor's degrees, 59% of master's degrees and half of doctorates.
They now earn the majority of professional and doctoral degrees, up from just 10% in 1961.
Bureau of Labor Statistics data consistently shows that young people with college degrees fare better than those who did not earn diplomas.
Most of those jobs require some sort of advanced education, and since women currently earn around 60 percent of all associate, bachelor and master degrees, they are poised to fill the demand in these growing industries.
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Higher Education Minister Bill Rammell said the report "confirms what we have been saying for some time now - that graduates, on average, earn more and are more likely to be in a job than those without degrees, and that higher education is likely to be the best investment a student will ever make".
Educated workers, on average, earn more than workers with less education and college grads are much more likely to have jobs than those without college degrees.
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