...Purpose, Audience, Significance What is the purpose of your speech? | The purpose of my speech is to inform. I want my intended audience to be informed about all the benefits that children with disabilities would receive when they are included in a regular education class with their regular education peers. I want them to be informed of the many advantages that benefit students without disabilities when they too are educated in an inclusive setting. I want the audience to be aware of the lessons that could be learned from making accommodations for students with disabilities in an inclusive educational. | | Who is your Audience? | My ideal audience for my informative speech would be parents and family members of children with disabilities, and regular and special education educators. Administrators from the school district should be present as well. I feel that advocacy groups that help parents with resources would benefit as well as Lawyers of Special Education Law. | | Why is your topic significant to your Audience? | This topic is very significant to this intended audience because as children with disabilities begin in the educational setting, parents as well as educators need to know all the benefits that are available when placed in a inclusive classroom. Administrators of the school district need to be aware of benefits in case they currently are implementing inclusion in their school. Advocates need to be aware of what is available for parents so they can give...
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...Millar-Idriss, C. 2011. Transnational higher education: Offshore campuses in the Middle East. Comparative Education, 47(2), 181-207. doi:10.1080/03050068.2011.553935 Miller-Idriss examines the extreme increase in the number of cross-border higher education institutions, specifically in the Middle East. She states that of the 100 such institutions at the time of her research, over one-third are located in this region. Her paper presents the reasons behind the expansion, including a look at cultural, political, and economical components that impact education, definitions of the types of institutions, statistical information about the locations of institutions and the cooperating foreign affiliate institutions, and suggestions for further...
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...WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF HIGHER EDUCATION What Is the Purpose of Higher Education Excellent Student English101 May 31, 2014 Melissa Davis 1 WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF HIGHER EDUCATION 2 What Is the Purpose of Higher Education A higher education can be a difficult decision in your life, and while many high school students as well as adults struggle with this due to the cost. The purpose of a higher education outweighs the cost, offers greater earning potential and career. In the last 22 years, I have noticed a drastic change in the job market. In fact, more and more employers are requesting potential employees to have some form of education above high school. Truly, high school students and adults struggle with the decision to gain a higher education due to the cost. Indeed, while earning your degree can carry a hefty price tag, you shouldn’t let that distract you from seeing the bigger picture. There are a wide variety of financial aid options available that can help with the cost. For example, the federal government offers money, and your work may offer a tuition reimbursement program. Moreover, in a 66 page report, from Pew Research Center, it stated that, “An overwhelming percentage of college graduates then and now believe their college degree did or will pay off, despite the financial investment,” (Weinreich, 2014). Besides struggling with the cost, you must also consider the greater earning potential for someone that holds an education above high...
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...issue of a budget cut rise again. They assert that the present administration of President Benigno S. Aquino III has continued the tradition of his predecessor in slashing the budget allotted for the education sector, and basic social services in general. Is this true as is there really a budget cut? Or is there merely a blind analysis of the proposed budget? Policy Basis for Financing The rationale on how the government makes its budget for SUCs stems from a number of recommendations and laws. One of the most integrative recommendations of recent years was the report of the Congressional Commission on Education (EDCOM). The EDCOM provided for the overall assessment of POLICY GUIDELINE SALIENT FEATURES the education system Congressional Commission on Adopt a formula for determining shares and proposed of the tertiary education in the over-all administrative actions Education Report (1991) available and anticipated resources. on how to improve Republic Act No. 7722 or Higher education managed under education. Higher Education Act (1994) deregulated nature under Commission The EDCOM report on Higher Education. proposed that a SUCs can retain their incomes derived formula for Republic Act No. 8292 or from tuition and other fees. determining the budget Higher Education for tertiary education Modernization Act (1998) Moratorium on the creation of new be established. But this Presidential Commission on SUCs. Impose full-cost tuition in the formula has not been Educational Reform Report...
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...piece of paper is everything. In life you can have your house, your car, and your job taken from you but your college degree will be with you wherever you go and it’s the one thing that can’t be taken from you. The benefits of having a college degree outweighs not having a college degree by far. College education is a great tool for our self enhancement. It gives us a sneak peek at the cultures and values of the world. Subjects like history, anthropology, comparative religion, international politics, and humanities can make us a much more accommodating and sympathetic to other cultures, race and religion resulting in a better bond among international communities. By learning about others values make us able to perform at our best latter in our life contributing to sound political, business related or economic decisions; it also gives us the readiness to work internationally or even locally in a diverse work force. Math and science classes in college gives us the more than just a few basic skills to run the accounting of our life. Math and its deeper studies can help us becoming good engineers, architects or accountants. Science and its deeper studies can lead us to contribute to the advancement of technology in the new millennium. There is a legitimate public purpose in educating young people to be good citizens. Providing the tools required for participating in the economy is desirable. But these are relatively minor goals, despite their emphasis in the public debate over...
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...Urdaneta City University S.Y. 2014-2015 Student Experiences with Information Technology and their Relationship to Other Aspects of Student Engagement RESEARCH PAPER PRESENTED BY: EDISON G. MILLET MR. RYAN JASON DELOS REYES WRITING IN DISCIPLINE ENGLISH INSTRUCTOR BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INTRODUCTION In education, student engagement refers to the degree of attention, curiosity, interest, optimism, and passion that students show when they are learning or being taught, which extends to the level of motivation they have to learn and progress in their education. Generally speaking, the concept of “student engagement” is predicated on the belief that learning improves when students are inquisitive, interested, or inspired, and that learning tends to suffer when students are bored, dispassionate, disaffected, or otherwise “disengaged.” Stronger student engagement or improved student engagement are common instructional objectives expressed by educators. In education, the term student engagement has grown in popularity in recent decades, most likely resulting from an increased understanding of the role that certain intellectual, emotional, behavioral, physical, and social factors play in the learning process. For example, a wide variety of research studies on learning have revealed connections between so-called “non-cognitive factors” or “non-cognitive skills” (e.g., motivation, interest, curiosity, responsibility, determination, perseverance, attitude...
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...into account to describe his view on education. He starts off by commending his main target audience – the incoming students as they take on a new adventure and map out their educational path during the early stages of college. He launches on his concept that university education is not solely a stepping stone towards an established profession, rather an arena in which we work on those philosophical questions such as ‘Who are you?’ and ‘What are you doing here?’ in order to eschew the wrong course of life. Edmundson also challenges the audience to analyze what college education really offers to them, arguing that the sole purpose of the subject should be self-fulfillment and not just to cultivate knowledge but more importantly to defy the standards and morals it presents to them. He advocates that we should live a more purposeful life by pursuing what we desire the most to obtain spiritual fulfillment rather than monetary. The author promulgates a variety of propositions on the subject but mainly, his key objective is to intensify the mindset of college students in order to define the true significance of higher learning. Today’s education is evolving frantically and whoever thinks that the subject can be substantiated by a piece of paper has been misrepresented by their own judgment. He asserts that to get an education, one has to fight against the institution he finds himself in - to be “strong”, to “struggle and strive” for the purpose of quenching one’s thirst for comprehensive...
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...White Paper Cloud Computing in Higher Education: A Guide to Evaluation and Adoption Executive Summary Public cloud computing—delivering infrastructure, services, and software on demand through the network—offers attractive advantages to higher education. For example, it has the potential to reduce information and communications technology (IT) costs by virtualizing capital assets such as disk storage and processing cycles into a readily available, affordable operating expense. Sometimes selecting a public cloud offering can create risk around security, privacy, interoperability, or performance. When it does, universities should consider private cloud deployment models to realize scale on demand, rapid platform deployment, and lower costs and carbon emissions while minimizing risk. Introduction The cloud-computing market is projected to grow from $40.7B in 2011 to $240B in 2020 (“Sizing the Cloud” by Stefan Ried and Holger Kisker, Forrester Research, April 21, 2011). , Such rapid market growth is a clarion call to all chief information officers (CIOs) to explore the possibilities offered by cloud and to assess the risks. Most are familiar with the cloud concept because many already use some aspect of cloud applications—software as a service (SaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), and infrastructure as a service (IaaS); for example, Google’s Gmail, iTunes University, and Amazon’s infrastructure, respectively. The cloud space is rapidly adopting a plethora of new acronyms...
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...Transformational And Transactional Leaders In Higher Education Lloyd Moman Basham Texas A&M University-Commerce Abstract This paper discusses the following issues: (1) the climate, environment, challenges, and issues in higher education; (2) an overview of leadership and its application to education; (3) transformational leadership as the current focus on concepts relating to organization leadership; (4) transactional leadership as being management by exception; and (5) a comparison of transactional and transformational leadership. Climate, Environment, Challenges, and Issues in Higher Education The growing consensus among educators and policy-makers is that the current process of education must change dramatically. A different approach is needed to prepare today’s leaders to meet tomorrow’s challenges. The new structure should enhance preparation, allowing for innovation and futuristic thinking in a collaborative setting (Rodriguez, 1999). Americans, at all levels, have had great faith in the power of education to improve their quality of life. Education has been viewed as an escape route from poverty, an antidote to intolerance born of ignorance, a primary source of national prosperity, and the foundation of democracy (Swail, 2003). Scientific and technological advances have intensified in the past two decades and for the first time in human history created a truly global community. Modern telecommunications have linked all the corners of the planet as never before. Like the...
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...Structure of Accreditation June 8, 2016 According to the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education (WICHE), “Accreditation is a process used by higher education to evaluate colleges, universities, and educational programs for quality and to assess their efforts toward continuous quality improvement.” The accreditation is performed by private, not-for-profit organizations whose sole purpose is to conduct external quality reviews. There are regional accrediting organizations in the United States that manage six different regions of the country. “These organizations review degree-granting nonprofit and for-profit institutions within their regions, both two-year and four-year schools” (www.wiche.edu), and accredit colleges and universities that operate in both traditional and non-traditional settings. The Top 10 online college’s website states that these organizations are charged with an important responsibility, which is “Accreditation through the Higher Learning Commission helps standardize the education a student receives at any college that has successfully undergone the accreditation process”. Without this process, many schools and colleges would not offer equal opportunity and would typically be run for the purposes of making money rather than educating students. The purpose of regional accreditation is to ensure that an institution’s academic program meets acceptable levels of quality (CHEA). Schools must be accredited by a federally recognized accrediting agency...
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...International Journal of Sociology and Anthropology Vol. 4(5), pp. 172-178, May 2012 Available online at http://www.academicjournals.org/IJSA DOI: 10.5897/IJSA11.143 ISSN 2006- 988x ©2012 Academic Journals Full Length Research Paper Migrant remittances: A driving force in rural development Benzies Isaac Adu-Okoree* and Adwoa Ofosua Onoma Faculty of Development Studies, Presbyterian University College, Akuapem/Tema Campus, Ghana. Accepted 10 April, 2012 The main push factor for migration from rural communities is lack of employment opportunities for inhabitants who had high level of educational. When they migrate, they remit back to their families at communities they migrated from. Remittances play important role in rural development, and the study using Tutu in Ghana as a case study found out that as a result of money remitted to residents in the community, the study participants acquired farm lands, bought vehicles and built houses which they would not have had without remittances. More wives and mothers than other persons received large portions of the remittances. Those who remitted home maintained that in addition to remitting money to their families, they were also willing to contribute to community development including construction of schools, churches and community centre, and also pay school fees to the brilliant but needy students. Thus, they were willing to help develop the entire community. Key words: Remittances, Tutu, rural development,...
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...CHAPTER TWELVE FUNDING HIGHER EDUCATION IN NIGERIA: CRUCIAL ISSUES A. O. O. OGUNTOYE,Pk.D Introduction Education is the fastest growing social sector of the Nigerian economy, at least, in quantitative terms. Education grew slowly but steadily during the colonial era but there was a dramatic leap forward in enrolment in the 1970s after the windfall from an oil wealth that came in form of sale of oil, oil royalties and taxes on oil. Both the wealth and the expansion in enrolment were unprecedented 'in the annals of the country. The boom, which lasted for a few years, because of its nature and the kind of people that managed it, spelt doom for education. This chapter briefly examines past trends in enrolments and educational financing with a view to assessing present predicaments and future possibilities. There has been a monolithic supplier of funds to education - the government. This source, which is now over-burdened and overwhelmed, cries out for relief, which cannot come in easy because it involves hard political choices with attendant costs, moreso, because it is easier to destroy by a stroke of the pen in the 1970s when the fever of school take-over and free education spread like wild-fires. Demand and Supply of Education in Nigeria The demand and supply of education follow a linear relationship that keeps on expanding in response to the average growth in population of more than 2.5% annually. Nigerians having tasted education become insatiable, moreso, because of the profound...
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...The role of young people in the country’s economy and its future development is undeniable. That is why many governments put a lot of effort into investing in this group of people in order to benefit from its return in a long-term period and also improve lives of future generations. The question then arises: “how to invest in youth?”. The answer to this question can be limitless, but the first thing that comes to my mind is good health and proper education. From my point of view, the proper education is defined as a good combination of primary and second education. The girls’ secondary education is a quite problematic topic, especially when they finish primary school and are on the threshold of starting their secondary education or suffering from life full of bad surprises. The reason why secondary education of girls is of crucial importance is associated with its dramatic effect on the economy and a wider society. Thus, referring to the idea that girls’ education is advantageous not only for individuals but also for the whole society, I would like to express my thoughts about its economic and social impacts, the benefits and costs of both educated and uneducated girls, the barriers girls face in accessing secondary education and to give recommendations on how to improve this critical situation. In today’s modern world, it is not surprising to encounter women who work in the top level positions with high salaries,...
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...English 102 Jeremy Branstad December 3, 2011 Higher Education Education plays a major role in our society. We look to education for everything. Many individuals feel that there are different purposes for education. Some believe educations sole purpose is so we can learn. Others believe it’s so we can better ourselves financially. While others believe education is to help us develop discipline and power. Education is what makes the individual. In my opinion, education is what helps us get somewhere in our lives. There are many members in our society who believe that the whole purpose of higher education is so that we could be knowledgeable and be able to make the right choices in life, when it comes down to it. Some of us forget how crucial education is to our growth as individuals. One example of this would be Fredrick Douglas. He was born into slavery and had little options. He however, had been taught at an early age to read, unlike some other slaves. Fredrick Douglas once said, “I would at times feel that learning to read had been a curse rather than a blessing. It had given me a view of my wretched condition without a remedy. It opened my eyes to the horrible pit, but to no ladder upon which to get out (97). In this passage Fredrick Douglas seems to have given all hope. Even through all depression he continued to read and better himself. He strived to find even more information, and be knowledgeable even if the knowledge/facts hurt. By teaching himself the basics...
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...Reflecting on Practice: using learning journals in higher and continuing education Teachers College Reflecting on Practice: using learning journals in higher and continuing education Langer (2002) central focus is plainly stated in the introduction, which is “how the use of journals impacted the learning process of adult non-traditional students and how this impact compared to that of traditional students”. The purpose of this article critique is to analyze the strengths and weaknesses of the Langer (2002) article. The body of the critique will develop the five major elements, which begin with the research question/problem to include the author’s purpose for writing the article. The next element is the conceptual framework, followed by the methodology, results/findings of the study, and lastly the discussion. Even though the research question is stated clearly in the third sentence, the use of the terms former and latter in the introduction was somewhat ambiguous because the two comparatives were used early in the paragraph. The article mentioned traditional students, but it was unclear if they too were adults. The reviewer eventually determined that the traditional students were adults because the article stated that the computer technology certification courses were designed for adult students interested in changing their careers. Langer (2002) gave a clear purpose of his study, which was to understand the immediate and extended effects of journals as learning...
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