When I realized that I was ready to further my education by obtaining my master’s degree, I knew that I would need help funding my education. After researching different ways to fund your graduate degree, I discovered that many graduate schools offer fellowships and graduate assistantships to graduate students and support their education. After...
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Graduation from college is a beautiful thing. Parents, family, and friends come, near and far, for such a life-changing experience. Many college graduates are promised jobs and professional opportunities before graduation, while it may take others time for them to get their first job offer. As a graduate and proud member of the Golden...
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Statistics show that the primary interest for pursuing higher education is the expectation that degree attainment will improve job prospects. Students represent valuable assets to be leveraged by organizations given the knowledge and experience acquired, and recent graduates can influence and improve existing processes upon being hired. Indeed, college serves a societal function for a strong...
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So, you ‘wanna’ be an assistant lecturer? Well whoop-de-doo! Paraphrasing Phil (the satyr from the Disney classic “Hercules”), becoming an assistant lecturer is a worthwhile endeavour. In some ways, just like Hercules, you will undoubtedly become a hero, more for yourself than others, but becoming an assistant lecturer (as well as a hero) is...
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Qualification? Complete. Graduation gown? Purchased. Excitement? Through the roof. Knowing that you have finally bagged the bragging rights to say you are a university or college graduate and that you don’t have to sit through another 3-hour exam is probably one of the most exhilarating feelings you will experience in your lifetime. Your hard...
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My name is Brittany Ladson, and I am the president of Michigan State University Golden Key Chapter and a member of the International Counsel of Student Leaders. I am also a new 4th-year medical student, which means I have completed my 3rd-year core medical school rotations in each specialty of the hospital: Obstetrics/Gynecology, Surgery,...
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Back in my school days, students were often told, “Study hard: good employment will eventually come following good academic results.” As an international student on scholarship, I held on to that belief strongly until the graduation of my undergrad degree. Unfortunately, the top results on the academic transcript did not make it any easier...
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When my twin brother and sister were 11 months old, I was born. I never knew my father, as he left when I was three weeks old. My mother became a single parent raising three children under one-year-old. We grew up during the 1960s, and our neighborhood was permeated with drugs and many pregnant...
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Youth unemployment and digital entrepreneurship The global population keeps growing, while opportunities for job development are declining, especially for young people. Therefore, youth unemployment remains one of the major global problems for many years to come. In South Africa, in the fourth quarter of 2020, the unemployment rate has risen from 30.8% in quarter...
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When most people think of a traditional college student, they envision someone in their late teens or early twenties strolling around campus with coffee in one hand and their computer in the other. However, the National Center for Education Statistics reports that about 74% of college students now fall under one or more of...
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