Anything but college to try to get a job.
College no longer guarantees success or even a good enough job to pay back student loans. Thanks, but no thanks, some high school grads are starting to say to higher ed. Instead, some are starting their own businesses, working for free at companies to get experience, and flying out to conferences to network.
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Q: My wife and I have no debt. Our home, cars and credit cards are paid off. We make the maximum contributions into our 401(k) plans, although we don’t take advantage of catch-up contributions. But because our kids will be going to college in four years, should we take out a home mortgage now to lock in a low rate and deduct the interest payment? This way we will have some money to pay for college without borrowing from our 401(k) plans.
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A growing seniors population and an impending shortage of health care aids, has a local college developing programs that could help fill the void.
Bow Valley College, which recently opened a campus in High River and has an office in Okotoks, is working collaboratively with community stakeholders to offer courses, which will help train local employees to fill roles close to home.
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Lethbridge College is closing two of its five rural campuses following an operational review.
Students will be able to finish their courses at the Fort Macleod and Pincher Creek campuses, but the college has stopped taking registration for those sites.
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Red Deer College is looking to the future with its newest program, offering a two-year diploma for occupational therapist and physiotherapist assistants.
Sharon Hamilton, kinesiology and sport studies department chair, said the idea to offer the program started as a request from Alberta Health Services, which indicated a future need for trained individuals.
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Like the city in which it is located,Bow Valley College in Calgary is a growing institution – led by its business faculty.
In recognition of that growth, the college has opened a new school of business that brings together business programs from various departments under one roof.
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The Grande Prairie Regional College footprint is now officially a little bigger.
The plot of land, south of the college, was given to the college by the municipality 42 years ago with the agreement that if the college didn’t need the land, ownership would revert back to the city.
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