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Among the posters of stylish models on the walls of Michaela Pütz's Bonn hairdressing salon hangs her Meisterbrief - the master craftsman's diploma that all German artisans must acquire before they set up their own businesses. The 40-year-old Pütz got hers 12 years ago, by attending six months of all-day classes on business management and crafts law at a cost of more than €12,000. Pütz's 21-year-old apprentice Susan, however, may not need to cram for a master's exam; the qualification, which dates back...
...educators, we believe that this frightening rise in attrition is not the result of students’ fear of failure on MCAS. Rather it is the result of students’ understanding that the worth of MCAS is only a diploma, not education. As our colleague, Dimon Professor in Communities and Schools Pedro Noguera, has recently noted from his interviews with Boston public school students, students want to be challenged and engaged in their work. Formulaic test preparation drains the life out of both classrooms and students...
Then, his listeners were a captive group of diploma-hungry students. But, now, with a condensed version of the speech leading the preface of his recently published Universities in the Marketplace: The Commercialization of Higher Education, Bok predicts that his audience will include professors, administrators and government officials from around the world...
...transformed the Bridge Program from a pilot program to a university-wide undertaking. It now boasts nine different class levels, from beginning literacy classes which work on phonics and spelling to an academic prep class designed to aid employees in getting the equivalent of a high school diploma. Classes meet twice a week for two hours, and run on Harvard’s semester schedule...
...find employment after graduating from college. Law school’s appeal is obvious: like the fondly remembered investment banking and consulting jobs of the 1990s, law seems like a quick way to six-figure salaries, swank city apartments and imported cars that so gracefully accessorize a Harvard diploma...