Hello, everyone! My name is Galina. I am 41 years old. I have been living in Canada for 3 years, and many things have changed in my life in terms of both my place of residence and my activities.
Sarah had been busy looking at schools in Canada for her two children. She and her husband, Bob had recently received their Permanent Residency and were very excited at better prospects that awaited them
The front page article of the Winter 2022 issue of Learning Curves titled “Micro Credentials The Next “Big Thing” in Adult Learning”
One day before my 33rd birthday, I wrote and passed my very first exam towards becoming a Real Estate Agent! After almost a decade of being a full time mom to 3 kids, this was my first step towards building a professional career.
At 22 and with two small children to care for, I didn’t have many options. Though bilingual and with some work experience in an office setting, I’d been too long out of the workforce – a mere two years! - to merit any serious consideration.
When Brad Dalgleish dropped out of high school in grade 9, he didn’t imagine that he would be graduating from the University of Toronto with an Honours Bachelor of Science 14 years later.
Have you ever felt that you should have gone further with your education? That you were capable of more?
The world of work is competitive and further education may give particular candidates the competitive edge and legitimacy needed in their professions.
Often we put off calling a university or college as we didn’t finish high school or did poorly or did it in a different country in a different language.
Hundreds of mature students 20 years of age and over, will be heading back to school this fall through the University of Toronto’s Millie Rotman Shime Academic Bridging Program.
The world of work is competitive and further education may give particular candidates the competitive edge and legitimacy needed in their professions.
Often adult students had dropped out of high school, though they do this less than they used to, and later they often decide to go back to school. But there has been few community accessible learning information services to help adults go back. So often they start back based on what a friend advises or at an educational program they know in their area or at a program they have seen an ad for.
Making the decision to return to school isn’t an easy one, especially if you have children. Raising children requires a lot of time, patience, energy and money.
Summer holiday mode is over, you have turned your mind to work mode, the kids are settled in school and you have time to think about taking a course yourself, only to find the Fall term has already started at many places.
se are just a few of the things one might overhear me saying, to my incredibly active three year old son, at any given time.
Let’s say that you have been out of school for a few years working at a job that pays the bills but doesn’t interest you the way it once did.