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Education & Library Science
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By Lorna Collier
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 With teaching jobs scarce, some new grads have abandoned the job search and returned to school.
Their thinking: go ahead and earn a master's of education. When the job market opens up again, they'll qualify for higher paying teaching gigs because of their advanced degree.
Be careful using this once-smart strategy, warns author and career education expert Don Asher. By going for a master's in today's economy, you could wind up pricing yourself out of the teaching market.
That's right: earning a master's of education, whether online or in residence, may sometimes hurt your career prospects. This is especially true for teachers who lack substantial experience or are licensed at the bachelor's level in low demand teaching areas.
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Expert Advice >
Online MBA
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By Get Educated Consumer Reporting Team
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 If Networking is Important to You, Definitely Opt for the Hybrid MBA
(MacKinnon Photography/flickr) Top residential business schools — we’re talking Duke University and the University of North Carolina’s Kenan-Flagler — are spawning online MBA programs at lightening pace. Yet every elite residential b-school has opted for an online hybrid MBA format. An online hybrid MBA delivers all courses on the web, but require spats of time on campus for what educators call “immersion experiences.” UNC Kenan-Flagler, for example, offers an online hybrid MBA program where all required courses are offered on the web, but online students are required to attend three-day immersion weekends at the beginning of each quarter of enrollment. (Attendance is required at two of these immersion experiences each enrollment year.) Attending an online hybrid MBA program that requires face-time can add up to $5,000 — travel, room and board, meals, time off work — to the sticker price of a distance degree.{{ad103}} Another possible hybrid bummer: You probably won’t be allowed to tap the company coffers to pay for that additional airfare and room and board required for those immersion experiences. Most corporate tuition assistance programs only reimburse for tuition. The big question: is b-school face time really worth that extra wad of cash? |
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Justice, Law & Legal Studies
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By Vicky Phillips, Chief Education Analyst
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 Washington University School of Law, in St. Louis, has long been touted as a top residential law school. The school surprised many—and shocked some—last week by announcing they will begin offering a new online law degree. Washington's first online class of legal eagles will take their virtual seats in January 2013.
The Washington University online law degree will be tightly targeted. The new degree will be a master of laws in U.S. law for foreign lawyers (LLM)—not a juris doctorate degree (JD).
It’s significant that the new online legal degree will be a master's in law (LLM), not a JD degree. The JD is the blue chip choice for students who aspire to sit for the bar exam. The JD is the classic degree earned by top trial lawyers.
The American Bar Association (ABA) has thus far refused to approve any online JD degree. Instead, the ABA is allowing approved residential law schools, such as Washington, to offer a new generation of online law degrees at the master's level.
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Fake Diploma News
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By Rachel Wang
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A network of diploma mills operating under the brand name of Belford suffered a financial blow after a federal court in Michigan mandated a $22.7 million payout to duped students who bought the group's fake GED diplomas and college degrees. Belford High School and Belford University— both owned by Pakistani businessman Salem Kureshi— lost a federal class-action lawsuit for selling scam credentials to students. Now the Belford gorup of schools must make financial amends to their duped alumni in what authorities have ruled a degree mill scam involving several Internet domains, all operating under the Belford tagline.
On Aug. 31, 2012, U.S. District Judge Mark Goldsmith ordered Kureshi and his co-defendants to pay $22.7 million in a lawsuit settlement to Belford students in compensation for selling unaccredited diplomas and degrees. The Belford scam encompassed 30,500 plaintiffs living in the U.S. who purchased a fake diploma from Belford High School or Belford University from 2003 to 2009, at the start of the lawsuit.
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