Online courses are available from basic school education to professional level courses from the IITs in various areas.

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The company has even created its own Bright Horizons University that provides online professional development courses and child care certification.

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There's also an increased focus on leadership training, with professional development courses for Iraqi squad leaders and platoon sergeants and warrant officers and sergeants-major.

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Under the terms of the initiative, the Varkey GEMS Foundation, in close cooperation wiith UNESCO, will provide leadership and professional development courses to improve the skills and knowledge of the school principals.

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Top business schools understand the importance of such networks and actively encourage their graduates to maintain professional links after courses are completed.

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Most courses remain geared to professional qualifications, imparting knowledge rather than broader skills.

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Whether it is to teach a career development curriculum or to conduct courses infused with career education the professional development of teachers should give them a basic framework for career planning and how to connect activities in the classroom to the events unfolding in the labour market.

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Their options range from using online app-building tools, to taking crash courses in computer programming and coding languages, hiring a costly professional on contract, or recruiting a full-time developer.

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One reason why it is hard to design and teach such courses is that they cut across the insistence by top American universities that liberal-arts education and professional education should be kept separate, taught in different schools.

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