Author : Natalie Aranda
Since the birth of the internet, the computer industry has been filled with potential jobs. It not only has become one of the leading industries in the world, but it has provided many students with the opportunity to do what they love best.Although computer jobs are popular, they are anything but easy. In order to get a great job in the computer field, one must have a lot of experience, CBT, and education. Luckily, there are dozens of different ways to get a degree. However, with so many different routes to take, it can be difficult to choose a computer training school. As long as you have the tools to pick your career path, it should be smooth sailing.The first thing you need to ask yourself is what kind of computer field you want to go into. With hundreds of different careers in the industry, it is crucial to narrow it down to a few options. There are programs that include web design to basic programming. Nonetheless, you need these tools to make your mark in the world. However, it may be smart to find out what careers are "hot" in the market. Some positions are quite hard to find, while others make millions of dollars a year. If you want to make money, it is important to find the jobs that will get you there.After you decide what type of career you would like in the computer industry, it is smart to research the training schools around your area. You can do so by searching the term on Google or going to specific sites. Many people prefer http://www.computer-schools.us/, where they can type in their area and see the opportunities available. Surprisingly, many students are actual professionals already in another industry, who are looking to expand their skills. Training centers can be found either online or offline, depending on the amount of time you want to spend training. If you want to get your computer training done quickly, it is recommended that you devote most of your time training and perhaps finding an internship in the process.For those who want prominent training but don't know where to look, then New Horizons learning center may be the place to go. New Horizons is one of the largest IT training companies in the world. With great flexibility and convenience, students are able to get their certification quickly on their own time. It is great because New Horizons offers three types of programs. While there are in person training sessions with a traditional teacher, there are also online courses. This web training is the newest trend, as e-learning has become one of the biggest education markets in the past decade.If you are unsure about this specific program, there are many other great CBT programs such as Global Knowledge. Global knowledge offers hundreds of programs for professionals and newcomers alike. This company has trained fortune 500 companies, as well as businesses worldwide.Overall, there are hundreds of different options when choosing the right computer training program. With the internet now expanding to e-learning, CBT has become fairly easy and convenient. You can easily get certified if you devote just a few hours a week to the program. No matter what you decide to do, it is important that you have the drive and the passion. After researching the program you want to take, and figuring out the type of career you want, it is essential to work hard and study the long hours. With such an extensive career, it is vital that you know all of the information taught to you. This is anything but an "easy" get through it program, where you can sleep the entire time. If you put in the effort and the hours, you will surely come out on top.Natalie Aranda writes on training and technology. For those who want prominent training but don't know where to look, then New Horizons learning center may be the place to go. New Horizons is one of the largest IT training companies in the world. With great flexibility and convenience, students are able to get their certification quickly on their own time. It is great because New Horizons offers three types of programs. With the internet now expanding to e-learning, computer training and CBT has become fairly easy and convenient.
Category : Computers-and-Technology:Certification-Tests
วันพุธที่ 9 กรกฎาคม พ.ศ. 2551
How to Begin a Lesson Plan
Author : Andrew E. Schwartz
DEVELOPING LESSON PLANS: In developing lesson plan formats, two things are paramount: extraordinarily careful documentation and room left for possible changes. Sloppy accounting of the direction your class will be going is worse than none. And documentation that doesn’t have leeway for change is almost instantly obsolete. The types of plan formats generally used are the: outline, sentence outline, narrative outline, narrative. The primary difference is in the amount of information and narrative in the body of the presentation. Your plan for a presentation should be at least a sentence outline or preferably a narrative outline.READING LESSON PLANS: All maps have common information, called the legend, which tells you how to read them. The lesson plan should also have a legend (the cover sheet) which tells the trainer what the learning environment will be. The cover sheet includes the course title, the lesson title, the length of time for the lesson, the target audience, the performance objectives, the evaluation procedures, and the equipment and supplies needed for you and your students. Although your department may have a specific format for this information the purpose is more important than the format.MAKING INFORMATIVE LESSON PLANS: --The course title or lesson title should accurately reflect the content of the lesson or course and be stated simply. --The length of time for the lesson should include time required for lesson presentation and suggested time, date, and hour at which lesson delivery would be most effective. --The target population entry shgould answer several questions. What skill level will the trainees have? Is the content appropriate for the audience? Will the audience be homogeneous, or a “mixed†group of people with different backgrounds, ages, and job skills?Copyright AE Schwartz & Associates All rights reserved. For additional presentation materials and resources: ReadySetPresent and for a Free listing as a Trainer, Consultant, Speaker, Vendor/Organization: TrainingConsortiumCEO, A.E. Schwartz & Associates, Boston, MA., a comprehensive organization which offers over 40 skills based management training programs. Mr. Schwartz conducts over 150 programs annually for clients in industry, research, technology, government, Fortune 100/500 companies, and nonprofit organizations worldwide. He is often found at conferences as a key note presenter and/or facilitator. His style is fast-paced, participatory, practical, and humorous. He has authored over 65 books and products, and taught/lectured at over a dozen colleges and universities throughout the United States.
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DEVELOPING LESSON PLANS: In developing lesson plan formats, two things are paramount: extraordinarily careful documentation and room left for possible changes. Sloppy accounting of the direction your class will be going is worse than none. And documentation that doesn’t have leeway for change is almost instantly obsolete. The types of plan formats generally used are the: outline, sentence outline, narrative outline, narrative. The primary difference is in the amount of information and narrative in the body of the presentation. Your plan for a presentation should be at least a sentence outline or preferably a narrative outline.READING LESSON PLANS: All maps have common information, called the legend, which tells you how to read them. The lesson plan should also have a legend (the cover sheet) which tells the trainer what the learning environment will be. The cover sheet includes the course title, the lesson title, the length of time for the lesson, the target audience, the performance objectives, the evaluation procedures, and the equipment and supplies needed for you and your students. Although your department may have a specific format for this information the purpose is more important than the format.MAKING INFORMATIVE LESSON PLANS: --The course title or lesson title should accurately reflect the content of the lesson or course and be stated simply. --The length of time for the lesson should include time required for lesson presentation and suggested time, date, and hour at which lesson delivery would be most effective. --The target population entry shgould answer several questions. What skill level will the trainees have? Is the content appropriate for the audience? Will the audience be homogeneous, or a “mixed†group of people with different backgrounds, ages, and job skills?Copyright AE Schwartz & Associates All rights reserved. For additional presentation materials and resources: ReadySetPresent and for a Free listing as a Trainer, Consultant, Speaker, Vendor/Organization: TrainingConsortiumCEO, A.E. Schwartz & Associates, Boston, MA., a comprehensive organization which offers over 40 skills based management training programs. Mr. Schwartz conducts over 150 programs annually for clients in industry, research, technology, government, Fortune 100/500 companies, and nonprofit organizations worldwide. He is often found at conferences as a key note presenter and/or facilitator. His style is fast-paced, participatory, practical, and humorous. He has authored over 65 books and products, and taught/lectured at over a dozen colleges and universities throughout the United States.
Category : Shoes
วันพฤหัสบดีที่ 26 มิถุนายน พ.ศ. 2551
Pin the Tail on the Oil Donkey
Author : Austin Culley
For all your kids out there trying to come up with an essay topic to write about, why not bump those grades up by doing a little research on oil. Not peanut butter oil, or olive oil, but oil - the kind that helps to run the car you hope to one day drive.DonkeysNow, first of all, what exactly is an Oil Donkey? Well, it's actually called a Nodding Donkey, and what a Nodding Donkey does is help pump oil out of the ground so that we can get our paws on it. You can find a good picture of one of these donkeys at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nodding_donkey. As a matter of fact, outside of this article, you could probably find a whole lot of information about oil, otherwise known as petroleum, at this Wiki Web Site. It's a great resource for information.Dinosaurs and DiatomsOil is considered a "Fossil Fuel", meaning that it is an organic substance that comes from the fossils of animals who have long parted the earth. Many people think this means that oil comes from dead dinosaurs; however, it is more likely that oil was formed from the bodies of very small creatures such as diatoms and foraminifera.DecompositionAfter a long period of time, the skeletons of these fossils decompose to turn into thick deposits of mud. Over thousands of years, layer upon layer of this mud builds up, and the lower layers become hard as rock. Time, pressure, and heat caused from the earth's core is what is believed to turn this organic decomposition into crude oil and natural gas.DrillingDeep within the earth there are a few different places where oil and gas pockets can pool together. One of these places can be in porous rocks, such as sandstone, which is a rock that has spaces in it and looks like a sponge close up. This is one of the places we collect oil from by drilling a well hole deep into the ground to get to it. After the well hole is drilled, the oil is pumped out and refined into different products we use in everyday life, like to run our cars and heat our homes if it gets cold.Our Dependence on OilYou see, this is a great subject to do an essay on because oil is an important part of our lives. We depend on it for many things that help make our lives more comfortable. Good luck with your essay, and I hope you get an "A". About The AuthorAustin Culley is the Vice President of Oil-Net.Com Inc.http://www.oil-net.com
Category : Kids - Teen
วันอังคารที่ 24 มิถุนายน พ.ศ. 2551
Fiddle Tab Makes Learning Fiddle Fast and Easy
Author : Elan Chalford
Learning fiddle tab is so intuitive and so easy that a student picks it up in five minutes. This is true even for five-year-olds.Before starting this examination of fiddle tab, let's recall what standard musical notation looks like. The familiar dot-shaped notes on or between the five lines of the musical staff represent exact pitches of musical notes.The dots show the pitch. Sharp signs or flat signs influence that pitch. The clef sign also has an effect.Rhythm symbols that show the relative duration of the notes. Other musical terminology, often Italian, indicates the speed of the rhythm. Allegro con brio, for example, means "lively, with enthusiasm."Musical notation tells nothing about how to play the music on any given musical instrument. It is designed to be used with all musical instruments.Fiddle tab, on the other hand, tells exactly what string to play and what finger to use. It's intuitive and easy to learn.But it shows the information in a form that only fiddle players can use. It is not universal. Because it is so focused, it is simpler.On the fiddle tab staff each space represents a string. The top space represents the E-string, the next one, the A-string--and so on.If you placed a violin with its side, with the neck extending to the left of the body, you would see the strings in exactly the same relationship. If you then reached both hands to pick up the violin, with your left hand under the neck, you would be in position to finger the strings the normal way.Numbers indicate what finger to use. The number 1 is the first finger--the pointing finger, 2 is the middle finger, 3 the ring finger and 4 the pinkie. An 0 means use no finger. Leave the string open.The only question remaining is placement of the fingers. We begin with the placement that would produce a major scale. This is the most common tradition in Western music. It’s common to all the melody instruments that I’m aware of, and to singing as well.All music teachers start with this basic instruction: the do-re-mi of music. These first three notes of the scale are found in countless children’s songs: Are You Sleeping, Brother John?, Row, Row, Row your Boat, and, in the inverse order, Hot Cross Buns, Mary Had a Little Lamb, London Bridge is Falling Down, Three Blind Mice.That sound, and the relationship of the fingers that produce that sound, underlies fiddle tablature, as I teach it. Any variation from that finger placement will be indicated by the letter L or H. These letters guide the student to place the finger lower or higher than usual.Rhythm indication in fiddle tab is similar to musical notation, but simplified.A simple line under a number is called a stem, just as in music notation. It shows the same thing, one beat of rhythm. Two numbers that have stems joined by another line (called a "beam" in music notation) would be played in one beat.The development of standard musical notation in Western music was a great achievement. It led to the richly complex beauty, power and mystery of great music.Learning this system is no easy matter. In Europe, a hundred years ago, kids going into music learned to sing solfeggio. This meant translating musical notation into do-re-mi.In current practice, the difficulty of learning to read music is overcome by fingering notation over the particular note. This is true for keyboard, violin, or brass and woodwinds. Numbers over certain notes aid the student in translating the symbolism of the notational pitch into physical actions.The American Suzuki Method also uses finger notations over every note. The student has only to intuit when to change string. In this respect it differs not at all from classical violin pedagogy.In the method that I use, which we may call the fiddle tab method, I show the student tab charts after the initial stage of learning to play a scale. I have never had a student fail to learn how to read tab charts in one lesson. It is intuitive, natural and easy.Making the transition to reading music later has, likewise, been no great challenge. Some students simply begin Suzuki Violin Book One, with its easy pieces. They quickly learn to read.Students who prefer fiddling can use Beginning Old-Time Fiddle, by Alan Kaufman. It has both fiddle tab and musical notation. It's an excellent resource for the transition from tab to music notation.For more information about learning how to play fiddle using tab charts, set your web browser to Learn to Play Fiddle. You will find an abundance of information and free tab charts.Elan Chalford, Fiddle Coach
Learn to Play Fiddle without Reading Music
http://fiddleguru.com
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Learning fiddle tab is so intuitive and so easy that a student picks it up in five minutes. This is true even for five-year-olds.Before starting this examination of fiddle tab, let's recall what standard musical notation looks like. The familiar dot-shaped notes on or between the five lines of the musical staff represent exact pitches of musical notes.The dots show the pitch. Sharp signs or flat signs influence that pitch. The clef sign also has an effect.Rhythm symbols that show the relative duration of the notes. Other musical terminology, often Italian, indicates the speed of the rhythm. Allegro con brio, for example, means "lively, with enthusiasm."Musical notation tells nothing about how to play the music on any given musical instrument. It is designed to be used with all musical instruments.Fiddle tab, on the other hand, tells exactly what string to play and what finger to use. It's intuitive and easy to learn.But it shows the information in a form that only fiddle players can use. It is not universal. Because it is so focused, it is simpler.On the fiddle tab staff each space represents a string. The top space represents the E-string, the next one, the A-string--and so on.If you placed a violin with its side, with the neck extending to the left of the body, you would see the strings in exactly the same relationship. If you then reached both hands to pick up the violin, with your left hand under the neck, you would be in position to finger the strings the normal way.Numbers indicate what finger to use. The number 1 is the first finger--the pointing finger, 2 is the middle finger, 3 the ring finger and 4 the pinkie. An 0 means use no finger. Leave the string open.The only question remaining is placement of the fingers. We begin with the placement that would produce a major scale. This is the most common tradition in Western music. It’s common to all the melody instruments that I’m aware of, and to singing as well.All music teachers start with this basic instruction: the do-re-mi of music. These first three notes of the scale are found in countless children’s songs: Are You Sleeping, Brother John?, Row, Row, Row your Boat, and, in the inverse order, Hot Cross Buns, Mary Had a Little Lamb, London Bridge is Falling Down, Three Blind Mice.That sound, and the relationship of the fingers that produce that sound, underlies fiddle tablature, as I teach it. Any variation from that finger placement will be indicated by the letter L or H. These letters guide the student to place the finger lower or higher than usual.Rhythm indication in fiddle tab is similar to musical notation, but simplified.A simple line under a number is called a stem, just as in music notation. It shows the same thing, one beat of rhythm. Two numbers that have stems joined by another line (called a "beam" in music notation) would be played in one beat.The development of standard musical notation in Western music was a great achievement. It led to the richly complex beauty, power and mystery of great music.Learning this system is no easy matter. In Europe, a hundred years ago, kids going into music learned to sing solfeggio. This meant translating musical notation into do-re-mi.In current practice, the difficulty of learning to read music is overcome by fingering notation over the particular note. This is true for keyboard, violin, or brass and woodwinds. Numbers over certain notes aid the student in translating the symbolism of the notational pitch into physical actions.The American Suzuki Method also uses finger notations over every note. The student has only to intuit when to change string. In this respect it differs not at all from classical violin pedagogy.In the method that I use, which we may call the fiddle tab method, I show the student tab charts after the initial stage of learning to play a scale. I have never had a student fail to learn how to read tab charts in one lesson. It is intuitive, natural and easy.Making the transition to reading music later has, likewise, been no great challenge. Some students simply begin Suzuki Violin Book One, with its easy pieces. They quickly learn to read.Students who prefer fiddling can use Beginning Old-Time Fiddle, by Alan Kaufman. It has both fiddle tab and musical notation. It's an excellent resource for the transition from tab to music notation.For more information about learning how to play fiddle using tab charts, set your web browser to Learn to Play Fiddle. You will find an abundance of information and free tab charts.Elan Chalford, Fiddle Coach
Learn to Play Fiddle without Reading Music
http://fiddleguru.com
Category : Pregnancy
วันอาทิตย์ที่ 22 มิถุนายน พ.ศ. 2551
Third Wives Club: Banner Relationships & Making Them Work
Author : Jan Verhoeff
Nobody dreams of being the Third Wife. When you marry for the first time, you're full of hopes and dreams for long-term marriage relationship, the whole shebang, including a 50th wedding anniversary and all that includes. If that relationship blows up in smoke and disaster, the average person may actually still have enough persistence to try again… And still have some hope left.When the second relationship turns to ashes, the phoenix may not reappear as a standard of hope, but an avoidance of doom. The fear of growing old alone may pound in your chest, it may keep you awake at night, and you may suffer great anxiety because of your own fears. And yet, the prospect of saying "This is my third husband" terrorizes your mind.You look back at two failed marriages and think of the karma… The weight of the world is on your shoulders. Gloom and doom shall follow you. You're a looser! You can't even make a man happy. And you loose sight of the reality…The chances are good that your first marriage ended before it began. You and your spouse married young, without the necessary understanding of what marriage was all about. Your relationship started out a miracle and sunk into despair. Without proper tools to keep it alive, it died. Quickly on it's heals someone promised you all the right things, said all the things you needed to hear, and you fell for the "line". A second marriage solved all your current problems and you struggled to grasp and hold onto 'the dream'.I'm not resolving you of any responsibility. That would be your choice and view.Justification for your position appears on the horizon and you can see some semblance of hope reappearing in your life. You have another chance. A man in your life who just might be 'the one' and you risk it. You take that step, one more time, risking your heart to yet another who might trample it into the dirt.And you wonder - how to make it work.As a single woman attempting to make it work a third time, trying to revive the hope of 'maybe', I searched for answers and found a simple page of ideas. It's even on a free site, a place where one might go just to express thoughts and hopes. http://www.freewebs.com/luckslec offered a bit of hope, a few suggestions, and a place to seek answers. Links to other helpful sites are there in the lineup, along with practical suggestions.Then I wondered… Is there hope?Jan Verhoeff is a writer. Her short stories and articles often touch the hearts of readers seeking answers and solutions. Life solutions come in short supply, but hope is everlasting. If you're seeking hope, solutions for your life, or a business answer, visit http://janverhoeff.com Jan presents marketing solutions for business of all kinds – including affairs of the heart.
Category : News-and-Society:Relationships
Nobody dreams of being the Third Wife. When you marry for the first time, you're full of hopes and dreams for long-term marriage relationship, the whole shebang, including a 50th wedding anniversary and all that includes. If that relationship blows up in smoke and disaster, the average person may actually still have enough persistence to try again… And still have some hope left.When the second relationship turns to ashes, the phoenix may not reappear as a standard of hope, but an avoidance of doom. The fear of growing old alone may pound in your chest, it may keep you awake at night, and you may suffer great anxiety because of your own fears. And yet, the prospect of saying "This is my third husband" terrorizes your mind.You look back at two failed marriages and think of the karma… The weight of the world is on your shoulders. Gloom and doom shall follow you. You're a looser! You can't even make a man happy. And you loose sight of the reality…The chances are good that your first marriage ended before it began. You and your spouse married young, without the necessary understanding of what marriage was all about. Your relationship started out a miracle and sunk into despair. Without proper tools to keep it alive, it died. Quickly on it's heals someone promised you all the right things, said all the things you needed to hear, and you fell for the "line". A second marriage solved all your current problems and you struggled to grasp and hold onto 'the dream'.I'm not resolving you of any responsibility. That would be your choice and view.Justification for your position appears on the horizon and you can see some semblance of hope reappearing in your life. You have another chance. A man in your life who just might be 'the one' and you risk it. You take that step, one more time, risking your heart to yet another who might trample it into the dirt.And you wonder - how to make it work.As a single woman attempting to make it work a third time, trying to revive the hope of 'maybe', I searched for answers and found a simple page of ideas. It's even on a free site, a place where one might go just to express thoughts and hopes. http://www.freewebs.com/luckslec offered a bit of hope, a few suggestions, and a place to seek answers. Links to other helpful sites are there in the lineup, along with practical suggestions.Then I wondered… Is there hope?Jan Verhoeff is a writer. Her short stories and articles often touch the hearts of readers seeking answers and solutions. Life solutions come in short supply, but hope is everlasting. If you're seeking hope, solutions for your life, or a business answer, visit http://janverhoeff.com Jan presents marketing solutions for business of all kinds – including affairs of the heart.
Category : News-and-Society:Relationships
วันพฤหัสบดีที่ 19 มิถุนายน พ.ศ. 2551
Manitoba's Education System
Author : Dave Lympany
Public Education in Manitoba is provided free to all Canadian citizens and permanent residents aged under 21 years. As with the rest of Canada, education is a Provincial responsibility to administer.
For education in Manitoba, students are legally required to attend school between the ages of 6 and 16 years, although most students continue until they are at least 18 years to receive a graduation diploma.Under the initiative Schools for Choice students may apply for admission to any public school in the province. It is extremely important that you find out when the registration period is to ensure that your kids get the places at the schools you want. The registration normally takes place several months before the year starts (I.E. register in Feb. for September). Contact the particular school to find out the precise details. There may well be an administration fee charged to register your child!Publicly funded elementary and secondary schools are administered by Manitoba's School Division/District Boards with the school year usually running from the beginning of September through to June 30th. However, there may be variations to this within different school divisions. Most schools close down for the months of July and August as well as breaks at Christmas and Easter.There are a number of different types of schooling options available for education in Manitoba. The choices are Public, Independent, French immersion, Francais, and Private schools. Parents also have the option of home schooling their children. There are two languages of instruction available, English and French. French can either be taught as French Immersion (where French is the second language)or Francais (Full Time French).Elementary and Secondary SchoolsKindergarten and Elementary Schooling generally starts at the age of 5 years, although some school boards have different age cut off dates. The student will attend 5 days of either morning or afternoon classes. Kindergarten has 400 instructional hours per year. It is normally part of the school that your child will attend in Grade 1 and is good preparation for full time school.This age or younger is a very good time to think about saving for your child's post secondary education. Fee's for post secondary education are very expensive. There is a savings plan available in which the Federal Government will input a percentage of your contributions. These are called Registered Education Savings Plans (RESP).Children start Elementary school at the age of 6 years (Grade 1) and stay there until they are 10 years old(Grade 4). There are certain subjects that are required in these grades; these include Language Arts, Math, Science, Social Studies, Art, Health and Physical Education. Middle school covers 11 to 14 years of age, grades 5 to 8. These grades cover the same subjects as the earlier grades. Senior 1 to senior 4, covers 15 to 18 year olds. This curriculum is based around a credit system. To Graduate from Senior 4, students need to achieve a certain amount of credits. Credits are given for different subjects and courses that the student can take.Transfer From AbroadStudents who are coming to Manitoba from a different school system should submit an official statement of previous standing, such as a report card to the school they want to enroll in.
You should also have the previous school records and transcripts, copies of course outlines and content. After considering a number of factors including the students age, records and test results they will be placed in the appropriate grade.Post Secondary EducationThere is a good variety of Post Secondary Education in Manitoba with plenty of high quality institutes to choose from including four Universities. Brandon University - which is located in Manitoba's second largest city - offers small classes, a compact campus and a diverse student population.
College Universitaire de Saint-Boniface (CUSB) - located in Winnipeg. It is the only French language post secondary educational institute in Western Canada. Offering university and vocational programs and is affiliated with the University of Manitoba and offers U of M degrees.University of Manitoba - also in Winnipeg is Western Canada's oldest university and one of the largest in Canada. It has 17 faculties and four schools offering a wide array of programs. The U of M also has a continuing education and distance education division.The University of Winnipeg - is medium sized and offers undergraduate degree and pre-professional programs. The University also has courses through its continuing education and distance learning centres.There are a number of Technical Colleges that offer a wide range of different programs. There are also technical training institutions and private vocational institutions.Student LoansAs with all of Canada, the Post Secondary education in Manitoba is NOT free. Several years ago, the Canadian Government launched RESP's to help parents save for their children's future education needs. These are great if you start them early, but if your kids are about to start when you land it is too late. (see link above for more details).The Manitoba Student Aid program is a scheme that provides supplemental financial assistance to eligible post secondary students with limited finances. The amount of assistance you receive is based on financial need. There is a maximum amount available to each student and not everyone will receive the maximum.There are a number of different factors that will qualify you for a loan, but you must be a Manitoba resident, a Canadian citizen or Permanent resident and you must be enrolled or qualify to enroll as a full time post secondary student in an approved program at a designated school to be able to apply. There is both Federal and Provincial assistance available and both loans are interest free whilst you are a full time student and for six months after your studies end.Dave Lympany emigrated to Canada with his family in 2003 and has developed http://www.onestopimmigration-canada.com - the free information resource for Canada and Canadian Immigration. With over 150 pages of great content, the site is continually expanding and regularly updated and is an excellent resource for Immigration, Relocation, Research and Travel.
Category : Reference-and-Education
Public Education in Manitoba is provided free to all Canadian citizens and permanent residents aged under 21 years. As with the rest of Canada, education is a Provincial responsibility to administer.
For education in Manitoba, students are legally required to attend school between the ages of 6 and 16 years, although most students continue until they are at least 18 years to receive a graduation diploma.Under the initiative Schools for Choice students may apply for admission to any public school in the province. It is extremely important that you find out when the registration period is to ensure that your kids get the places at the schools you want. The registration normally takes place several months before the year starts (I.E. register in Feb. for September). Contact the particular school to find out the precise details. There may well be an administration fee charged to register your child!Publicly funded elementary and secondary schools are administered by Manitoba's School Division/District Boards with the school year usually running from the beginning of September through to June 30th. However, there may be variations to this within different school divisions. Most schools close down for the months of July and August as well as breaks at Christmas and Easter.There are a number of different types of schooling options available for education in Manitoba. The choices are Public, Independent, French immersion, Francais, and Private schools. Parents also have the option of home schooling their children. There are two languages of instruction available, English and French. French can either be taught as French Immersion (where French is the second language)or Francais (Full Time French).Elementary and Secondary SchoolsKindergarten and Elementary Schooling generally starts at the age of 5 years, although some school boards have different age cut off dates. The student will attend 5 days of either morning or afternoon classes. Kindergarten has 400 instructional hours per year. It is normally part of the school that your child will attend in Grade 1 and is good preparation for full time school.This age or younger is a very good time to think about saving for your child's post secondary education. Fee's for post secondary education are very expensive. There is a savings plan available in which the Federal Government will input a percentage of your contributions. These are called Registered Education Savings Plans (RESP).Children start Elementary school at the age of 6 years (Grade 1) and stay there until they are 10 years old(Grade 4). There are certain subjects that are required in these grades; these include Language Arts, Math, Science, Social Studies, Art, Health and Physical Education. Middle school covers 11 to 14 years of age, grades 5 to 8. These grades cover the same subjects as the earlier grades. Senior 1 to senior 4, covers 15 to 18 year olds. This curriculum is based around a credit system. To Graduate from Senior 4, students need to achieve a certain amount of credits. Credits are given for different subjects and courses that the student can take.Transfer From AbroadStudents who are coming to Manitoba from a different school system should submit an official statement of previous standing, such as a report card to the school they want to enroll in.
You should also have the previous school records and transcripts, copies of course outlines and content. After considering a number of factors including the students age, records and test results they will be placed in the appropriate grade.Post Secondary EducationThere is a good variety of Post Secondary Education in Manitoba with plenty of high quality institutes to choose from including four Universities. Brandon University - which is located in Manitoba's second largest city - offers small classes, a compact campus and a diverse student population.
College Universitaire de Saint-Boniface (CUSB) - located in Winnipeg. It is the only French language post secondary educational institute in Western Canada. Offering university and vocational programs and is affiliated with the University of Manitoba and offers U of M degrees.University of Manitoba - also in Winnipeg is Western Canada's oldest university and one of the largest in Canada. It has 17 faculties and four schools offering a wide array of programs. The U of M also has a continuing education and distance education division.The University of Winnipeg - is medium sized and offers undergraduate degree and pre-professional programs. The University also has courses through its continuing education and distance learning centres.There are a number of Technical Colleges that offer a wide range of different programs. There are also technical training institutions and private vocational institutions.Student LoansAs with all of Canada, the Post Secondary education in Manitoba is NOT free. Several years ago, the Canadian Government launched RESP's to help parents save for their children's future education needs. These are great if you start them early, but if your kids are about to start when you land it is too late. (see link above for more details).The Manitoba Student Aid program is a scheme that provides supplemental financial assistance to eligible post secondary students with limited finances. The amount of assistance you receive is based on financial need. There is a maximum amount available to each student and not everyone will receive the maximum.There are a number of different factors that will qualify you for a loan, but you must be a Manitoba resident, a Canadian citizen or Permanent resident and you must be enrolled or qualify to enroll as a full time post secondary student in an approved program at a designated school to be able to apply. There is both Federal and Provincial assistance available and both loans are interest free whilst you are a full time student and for six months after your studies end.Dave Lympany emigrated to Canada with his family in 2003 and has developed http://www.onestopimmigration-canada.com - the free information resource for Canada and Canadian Immigration. With over 150 pages of great content, the site is continually expanding and regularly updated and is an excellent resource for Immigration, Relocation, Research and Travel.
Category : Reference-and-Education
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Competition in Franchising; It Gets Ugly
Author : Lance Winslow
It is amazing the amount of competition and modern franchising today in the United States and starting in the rest of the world also. Competition in the marketplace is good for consumer prices and for customers, but when it gets ugly it serves no freeman. And it is amazing how quickly the competition can get very ugly.Franchising companies try to expand their brand name through out the regional area in order to compete in the marketplace for the largest percentage of the market here. The franchising is a method of rapid expansion with out huge amounts of capital outlay. A company like Starbucks has all company-owned stores and a company like McDonald's has mostly franchisees or independent business owners and some corporate stores that they own themselves.Most small businesspeople in any town hate to see a franchise organization come in and compete in their market sector. For instance if you own a hair salon and a franchise hair salon comes in to the shopping center next door to you then you realize you lose business and market here to them. Additionally franchising companies have thousands of stores and their business models are generally more efficient and they also come with a brand name that people know about.The competition in franchising gets ugly from the very beginning for instance in my over two decade years of experience in franchising I have noticed how many towns we went into with good old boy network's and trying to get the planning commission to approve one of our projects we always noticed that the friends of the local businesses that we would be compete against showed up at the city Council meetings or the planning commission meetings in order to make us look bad or prevent us going into the market.But this is not the only ugly part of franchising, as other franchise stores it may also be hair salons will attempt to get the information and find out your training methods and your operation manuals and even try to get your vendors to not do business with you or spread gossip in order to limit your credit lines. As a matter of fact amount of dishonesty in competition with something that always had bothered me while I was in business before retirement.I would expect that competitors would turn to the dark side and cheat as I have been involved in team sports and watched this happen also on the field. But one thing I never understood was why government agencies such as code enforcement and federal regulatory bodies would take sides with the competition and start investigations on your company. It seems that if the government agencies were true to free enterprise and capitalism they would be more like a referee.Unfortunately this is not the case, because once an investigation is opened on your company they need to justify why they are doing it and are therefore they work very hard to find something wrong so they can give you a fine. In fact they go so far as to send out press releases that they are investigating you, as if to try to get public relations for their own agency. It is as bad as the Donald Trump "Apprentice" show, layer each contestant blames another for something that went wrong. There is no such thing as a level playing field in business the United States of America no matter if it is at the city level, state level or federal level.If you are in the franchising industry you can expect your competitors to pretend to be franchise buyers and call you up at least once a month and try to get all the information they can from your sales force, secretaries and get a copy of your Uniform Franchise Offering Circular to see what you are doing. Needless to say, in franchising the competition can get ugly. Please consider this in 2006.Lance Winslow
Category : Business:Ethics
It is amazing the amount of competition and modern franchising today in the United States and starting in the rest of the world also. Competition in the marketplace is good for consumer prices and for customers, but when it gets ugly it serves no freeman. And it is amazing how quickly the competition can get very ugly.Franchising companies try to expand their brand name through out the regional area in order to compete in the marketplace for the largest percentage of the market here. The franchising is a method of rapid expansion with out huge amounts of capital outlay. A company like Starbucks has all company-owned stores and a company like McDonald's has mostly franchisees or independent business owners and some corporate stores that they own themselves.Most small businesspeople in any town hate to see a franchise organization come in and compete in their market sector. For instance if you own a hair salon and a franchise hair salon comes in to the shopping center next door to you then you realize you lose business and market here to them. Additionally franchising companies have thousands of stores and their business models are generally more efficient and they also come with a brand name that people know about.The competition in franchising gets ugly from the very beginning for instance in my over two decade years of experience in franchising I have noticed how many towns we went into with good old boy network's and trying to get the planning commission to approve one of our projects we always noticed that the friends of the local businesses that we would be compete against showed up at the city Council meetings or the planning commission meetings in order to make us look bad or prevent us going into the market.But this is not the only ugly part of franchising, as other franchise stores it may also be hair salons will attempt to get the information and find out your training methods and your operation manuals and even try to get your vendors to not do business with you or spread gossip in order to limit your credit lines. As a matter of fact amount of dishonesty in competition with something that always had bothered me while I was in business before retirement.I would expect that competitors would turn to the dark side and cheat as I have been involved in team sports and watched this happen also on the field. But one thing I never understood was why government agencies such as code enforcement and federal regulatory bodies would take sides with the competition and start investigations on your company. It seems that if the government agencies were true to free enterprise and capitalism they would be more like a referee.Unfortunately this is not the case, because once an investigation is opened on your company they need to justify why they are doing it and are therefore they work very hard to find something wrong so they can give you a fine. In fact they go so far as to send out press releases that they are investigating you, as if to try to get public relations for their own agency. It is as bad as the Donald Trump "Apprentice" show, layer each contestant blames another for something that went wrong. There is no such thing as a level playing field in business the United States of America no matter if it is at the city level, state level or federal level.If you are in the franchising industry you can expect your competitors to pretend to be franchise buyers and call you up at least once a month and try to get all the information they can from your sales force, secretaries and get a copy of your Uniform Franchise Offering Circular to see what you are doing. Needless to say, in franchising the competition can get ugly. Please consider this in 2006.Lance Winslow
Category : Business:Ethics
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