Right you are Balt, and Embry-Riddle’s still there, one of the more famous of civilian flight academies.
Not only is it still there, it offers highly rated four year degrees in engineering, business, etc.
Its main campuses are in Daytona Beach, Florida, and Prescott, Arizona. Annual tuition after credits is approximately $19,000 per year.
Here is a link to a description of the Bachelor’s degrees offered at Daytona Beach:
https://erau.edu/degrees?degree-level=bachelor&campus=daytona
I have a BSEE Degree From ERAU, quite a bit of non-flight degrees
I suggest you speak with people who live in Germany and healthcare professionals and not generalize a remark from the UK about the Cologuard product.
A small correction. Although over 80% of Sandhurst entrants are university graduates, a degree is not a requirement.
My apologies, I should have used a “rifle” instead of a “shotgun.”
The thing is, how many colleges say to a freshman, “Well OK, major in ‘Women’s Studies’ if you want to, but how are you going to support yourself with a degree like that after you graduate?”
Just an example.
I think we’re getting off topic here. Back to infrastructure anyone? I’m done.
Maybe so. But in today’s modern military, any developed country’s military, they wont go far without a degree of some kind. They’ll have to get one sooner or later.
But why? I’m not saying that further focused education past high school isn’t needed, but what does a 4 year liberal arts degree do for a soldier? The Army Command and General Staff College and the like are needed for senior staff and are focused on courses that directly pertain to the military. They are like high class trade schools. Just like pilots get type ratings and such. But to need a degree just to have one is stupid and a waste of time and money.
Afraid you are correct, need to get that head hammered flat so the hat fits.
The four year degree indicates two things to a potential employer. The holder of a degree can be educated. The holder of the degree can perservere through all the obsticals that life and the educational system can put in their way to obtain the degree - the person is goal orinted.
To my mind an ‘involved’ trade school that truly challenges the individual to master the skills of the trade, while offering the individual every opportuity to fail, with trade school taking a year or more has many similarities to a college education.
A individual I supervised when he was a trainman over the period of several years was promoted to several non-contract official positions. He would work those positions for a period of 6 to 8 months and then quit and go back on his seniority as a trainman. I never figured out what his goals were - and I don’t believe he ever did either.
They got you brainwashed too. You get an education if you need it for doing the job. Spending tens of thousands of dollars to show that you can “persevere” is idiotic. Aren’t you one of the ones who always denigrates the management personnel who come straight out of college and don’t have a clue to what they are doing and won’t listen? Maybe an “in-house” program for the people with the right aptitude would work better.
Here’s another little fact. Any pilot will tell you that flying a helicopter is much harder than a fixed wing. Yet, most Army pilots are straight out of high school and do a great job. Why? Because the have aptitude, intelligence and desire.
I am a product of both a college degree and being on a company’s in house training program for management. My last several years of college were financed by my working full time, while attending school full time - and in college I also pointed out some of the fallicies of what was being taught by the ‘ivory tower theorists’ and what I observed in the ranks of working day in and day out. I am a firm believer that theory is great - until it meets reality, then adjustments are necessary. Just like every boxer has a game plan - until he gets hit by the first pun
There is a looming problem of infrastructure repair for the states of CT, MA, RI, and to a lesser extent VT & NH. Have no idea how much is for public construction but private home owners are in the front line of the problem. It appears that the agregate used in concrete in those locations had a form of iron sulfide in it that is now showing rst and the concfrete is spaling. Ct already has a $100M fund for homeowners but nothing is being said about public problems.
Now if the problem is spreading to infrastructure projects ? ?
https://www.finehomebuilding.com/2016/05/17/failing-concrete-foundations-linked-aggregate
Some of the dumbest people I’ve ever met have ever had the pleasure of dealing with have a 4 year degree from a college. Some of the smartest people I have ever worked with barely have a high school diploma. Some of the college educated people I’ve worked with they need instructions to pour pee from a boot with instructions on a heel.
The last FMCSA person I dealt with on the phone 2 weeks ago comes to mind very fast. He couldn’t figure out why our 1984 KW spotter driver still runs a paper logbook. He went that’s illegal and I’m going to fine your carrier. I then had to recite the regulation to him that the ELD requirements were a 2000 and newer engine that had OBD2 diagnosis capacity. I went the truck in question in has zero computers at all it has no ABS computer nothing like that.
Purely anecdotal and consider the source. In general, higher IQ correlates quite well with more years of education, military training success, highly complex job performance, among other things and not well with low complexity jobs.
"And did we tell you the name of the game, boy?
We call it Riding the Gravy Train."
Pink Floyd - Have a Cigar
In my area, with a shortage of skilled workers, companies are sponsoring students at intermediate school districts (I guess the modern equivalent of trade schools) to learn welding, machinist skills, diesel mechanics, construction, etc. Community colleges are also getting into the act.
In Illinois, voc-tech is a major emphasis in community colleges.
Two different countries. NHS in England offers a less “gold plated” colonoscopy – do you have evidence to the contrary? Europe (in the form of the “EU” functions as a super nation state) is not a place where you can get the less-invasive Cologuard test – the CEO of Exact Sciences, Madison, WI is the source of this information – again, is he speaking an untruth?
As to alleged ignorance of the health-care system in German, I offer
https://mtrconsult.com/news/organized-colorectal-cancer-screening-program-started-germany
The “iFOBT” screening test is not in the same category of effectiveness as Cologuard.
There are tradeoffs in where different countries apply resources. Transportation infrastructure is o