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By Lily S.
When I first heard the phrase "university on wheels" from one of America's top business speakers - Brian Tracy, it didn't sink in, until I thought deeply about it.
He was referring to the powerful value we can get listening to professional audio books while driving to work each morning.
You see, most people "waste" as many as 2 or more hours every single day commuting to work. During this time they do nothing other than hum to themselves (leaving their minds empty) all of the way commuting to work.
Some that turn on the radio while driving to work spend the time listening to music.
Now... here's a pleasant, yet scary fact -
Do you know that just listening to the right professional audio books each and every morning as you commute to work will be equivalent to a full university education within some years?!
Definitely.
I know it might not make sense to you just yet, but stay with me while I try to explain why I said that.
You see, for some university degree programs, students spend no more than 10 hours weekly attending their lectures. And after a few years they are given their degrees.
And what do they do during these 10 hours each week?
You guessed it - they "listen" to their lecturers!
You can get the exact same value from just listening to the right audio books in the field or area of expertise you want to learn about.
I realize that no university will give you a degree certificate after you have completed your chosen audio books, but you would have enriched yourself with this new knowledge.
There are certain professional audio book programs that will give you examinations after completing their training programs... and will give you a certificate for passing their course.
Many such certificates can be used in certain places to give evidence of your expertise in that area.
In that case, why would you continue to "waste" valuable time on your daily commute to work when you can "kill 2 birds with one stone" by using the same hours to learn a new skill, a new business idea, a new profession, etc?
To get started, ask yourself what new skill or expertise you would love to learn. When you are certain of your answer, hop online and search for any audio book series in that area.
You are sure to find valuable information on the Internet related to this to get you started on your "university on wheels" program.
The fact that audio books come in both CD, cassette and downloadable formats give you options to choose from. If you have a CD player in your car or cassette player, you can choose any.
Even if you don't drive to work but take the bus to work, you can easily get a portable CD, cassette or Mp3 player and still benefit from your "university on wheels" program.
Who knows... if you dedicate the time to follow through, you will be an expert in that area of expertise in no time at all!
All thanks to the advent of audio books.
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By Charles Neshah
Student Loan Consolidation
As a student or the guardian of a student one of the most important relief you can receive is to conclude a Student Loan. But often the debt burden associated with student loans begins to way down on your income due to monthly repayments.
There are different student loans programs available, some of them out rightly exploitative. Student loan programs are either the Federal or the Private loans:
1. As the name implies, Federal loans are usually funded and administered through the Department of Education's Federal Student Aid programs.
2. Private loans are offered by Banks and other private organizations for the benefit of Private students. The two most popular private loan programs are the Citibank student loans and the Sallie Mae Signature student loans.
Most student loans, whether Federal or Private could be secured or unsecured, but the private loan institutions do charge higher interest rates than Federal loans.
You are at liberty to apply for either Federal or private loans along with scholarships for the purpose of defraying the cost of your education if you meet the requisite criteria.
As you must have already considered from the above, it is better to first apply for Federal loans and when time comes for consolidating your student loans also consolidate your Federal loan firstly, before consolidating a private student loans debt.
Below are the 3 reasons why:
Federal loans attract lower interest rate and slight changes could occur every July 1st to, in most cases, lengthen repayment period to upwards of 30 years.
You have just one institution to which you make repayments each month.
Eligibility criteria are usually more favourable with the Federal loans.
Student loan consolations have pros and cons you must learn in order to be able to manage your student loans debt properly. There are a variety of options open to you for consolidating your student loans, if you have a number of them.
For instance, you need to compare interest rates before consolidating any student loans, be it Federal or private student loans, because interest rates have fallen. If not, you will have debt problem, which will work against your credit rating in the future
However, you can reduce your student loans debt by eliminating the principal balances or reducing the monthly payments. Yes, you can, because your loans repayment is tied to your income. Always be on the look out for student loans forgiveness, which is sometimes applied by some student loans institutions?
Neshah writes for your Success. Recommended:Student Loan Consolidation Success, the road map to a successful college program without running into student loans debt
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By Matthias Koster
Support workers provide services to people who need help with their daily needs. You will provide these services in facilities and within the community. Supervised by a nurse or other professional, you are a vital part of a health care team. Legislation, employer’s policies, and the person’s condition influence how you function and how much supervision you will need. Once you gain the required experience, you will find that you are able to adapt your care depending on the setting and situations that arise. Ultimately, the goal of the support work is to improve the individuals overall quality of life. Care needs to be provided in a kind, sensitivity, and understanding manner. While tending to the person’s physical needs, you can also help to relieve loneliness, provide comfort, encourage independence, and promote the person’s self-image. Your service helps people in their homes remain independent. You should always conduct yourself in a manner that let’s the individual know that you care for them and about them. You will make a positive difference in people’s lives! Now, let’s take a look at where you’ll be performing your tasks as a personal support worker. There are two accepted groupings of locations, the first being facility-based and second, community based. To be listed as a Facility-based workplace, a location must provide accommodations, health & support services. There are several different types of facilities, including hospitals and long-term care (retirement) homes. Community-based workplaces include locations within the community where health care and services are provided, but where overnight are not necessary. The most common of these settings would be a person’s home. Obtaining certification to become a Personal Support Worker can follow one of two paths. The first being a traditional educational institution such as a College or University and the second being a specialized educational institution, such as a local learning center (for example, a continuing educational center at a local high school). The government of each province creates a course outline & standard that each institution must adhere to. The wages that a Personal Support Worker can expect to earn can differ from province to province, city to city, and from a unionized to a non-unionized workplace. CUPE (Canadian Union of Public Employees) states that the average wage for a Canadian unionized Support Worker is $14.65 and a non-unionized worker averages $13.42 per hour.
Matthias Koster operates Personal Support Worker Canada (http://www.personalsupportworker.ca), a resource site that provides information on Personal Support Worker job duties, educational institutions offering the course, supplies, and job opportunities.
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The University's Mission and Core Values
Mission
The mission of the University of Cambridge is to contribute to society through the pursuit of education, learning, and research at the highest international levels of excellence.

Core values
The University's core values are as follows:

freedom of thought and expression
freedom from discrimination
Education
the encouragement of a questioning spirit
an extensive range of academic subjects in all major subject groups
quality and depth of provision across all subjects
the close inter-relationship between teaching, scholarship, and research
strong support for individual researchers as well as research groups
residence in Cambridge as central to most courses
education which enhances the ability of students to learn throughout life
The University's relationship with society
the widest possible student access to the University
the contribution which the University can make to society through the pursuit, dissemination, and application of knowledge
the place of the University within the broader academic and local community
opportunities for innovative partnerships with business, charitable foundations, and healthcare
concern for sustainability and the relationship with the environment
The Collegiate University
the relationship between the University and the Colleges as fundamental to the nature of Cambridge
the interdisciplinary nature of the Colleges as a major stimulus to teaching and learning
the enhanced quality of experience for students and staff through College membership
University staff
recognition and reward of the University's staff as its greatest asset
the encouragement of career development for all staff
Other activities
the opportunities for broadening the experience of students and staff through participation in sport, music, drama, the visual arts, and other cultural activities

Welcome to the University of Oxford.
Oxford is the oldest university in the English-speaking world and lays claim to nine centuries of continuous existence. As an internationally renowned centre for teaching and research, Oxford attracts students and scholars from across the globe, with almost a quarter of our students from overseas. More than 130 nationalities are represented among a student population of over 18,000.

Oxford is a collegiate university, with 39 self-governing colleges related to the University in a type of federal system. There are also seven Permanent Private Halls, founded by different Christian denominations. Thirty colleges and all halls admit students for both undergraduate and graduate degrees. Seven other colleges are for graduates only; one has Fellows only, and one specializes in part-time and continuing education.

Oxford University is a member of the Russell Group of 19 research-intensive universities.

The Harvard University
Art Museums Friday (Oct. 13) announced a major acquisition of Asian works of art through Walter C. Sedgwick and the Walter C. Sedgwick Foundation. Three Japanese Buddhist sculptures and more than 300 early Chinese ceramics, previously on loan to the art museums, will enter the permanent collection of the Arthur M. Sackler Museum's Department of Asian Art. Exceptional in their beauty, historical significance, and cultural value, the pieces will make a vital contribution to the art museums' mission of teaching and research. These qualities and the objects' early dates of creation make these works among the most significant to enter the general holdings of the art museums in many decades.

"A number of experiences have led to my interest in enhancing the Harvard University Art Museums collection of Asian art through the gift of my collection," said Sedgwick. "Professor John Rosenfield, the noted art historian and a mentor during my undergraduate days at Harvard, had a great influence on me, as well as an enormous impact on the understanding of Asian art in the United States. Equally as rewarding has been my ongoing collaboration with the Harvard University Art Museums and curator Robert Mowry. Bob has been accessible, continually interested and intellectually engaging, and he is the architect and a partner in the building of this collection."

The three Japanese Buddhist sculptures given by Sedgwick represent one of the most significant such groupings outside of Japan. The pre-eminent work of the three, a magnificent statue of "Prince Shōtoku at Age Two," portrays the legendary cultural figure Shōtoku Taishi (A.D. 574-622) as a toddler, when he was said to have joined his hands in prayer, chanted the Buddha's name, and performed the miracle of manifesting a small Buddhist relic. Later, as a political leader, Prince Shōtoku went on to promote and foster the Buddhist faith in Japan. After his death, he was revered as a religious and cultural hero. Of the many three-dimensional representations of Prince Shōtoku - some as a child, some as a youth of 16, and others as a mature statesman - depictions of the prince as an enlightened child are by far the most popular. The Sedgwick statue is the earliest datable and most elegantly crafted of the hundreds of such sculptures in existence.


'Zōchōten, Guardian King of the South.' Japanese; Heian period, c. 1075. Wood with traces of polychromy and gilding. (Courtesy of the Arthur M. Sackler Museum)
The Sedgwick gift also includes two important Heian-period (794-1185) Japanese Buddhist wooden sculptures. The earlier of the two is an exquisite mid-11th century "Head of a Bodhisattva," which appears to have come from one of a series of celestial figures that served as frieze decorations adorning the upper walls of the Byōdō-in, a famous Buddhist temple near Kyoto. This head, from one of the temple's 50 small-relief bodhisattva sculptures, is believed to be unique among Western museum collections. The second Heian-period image is a statue of "Zōchōten, Guardian King of the South," originally from a set of four armor-clad deities that stood watch over a Buddhist temple. It was probably carved circa 1075 for a small private aristocratic altar.

"The Harvard University Art Museums have excellent holdings of Japanese woodblock prints and surimono (privately commissioned, luxury-edition prints), just as we have great strength in Japanese lacquer, calligraphy, and certain types of painting. Until now, however, we've not had significant holdings in Japanese sculpture," said Robert D. Mowry, Alan J. Dworsky Curator of Chinese Art and head of the HUAM's Department of Asian art. "Walter Sedgwick's generous gift will redress that need, bringing to the art museums three exceedingly important early Japanese Buddhist sculptures that are of - or at least approach - National Treasure quality."


'Large Pushou Monster Mask.' Chinese; Tang dynasty, early 8th century. Molded white earthenware with cold-painted pigments, gold leaf, and silver leaf. (Photographic Services © President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Over the past decade, the Walter C. Sedgwick Foundation has assembled the finest and most comprehensive collection of early Chinese ceramics in the West, and perhaps anywhere in the world. The foundation has enabled the art museums to acquire the collection through a partial gift/partial purchase arrangement. Comprising more than 300 works that range in date from the Neolithic period (as early as 6000 B.C.) through the Tang dynasty (A.D. 618-907), the collection includes examples of all major ceramic types produced during that nearly 7,000-year period. The Sedgwick Foundation collection illustrates the aesthetic, stylistic, and technical development of early Chinese ceramics and represents major turning points in terms of the medium's historical development.

"The Sedgwick collections of early Chinese ceramics and Japanese Buddhist sculptures will play an exceptionally important, even transformative, role in the teaching of Asian art here at Harvard," said Thomas W. Lentz, Elizabeth and John Moors Cabot Director of the Harvard University Art Museums. "The ability of students to study objects through direct observation is the foundation of our teaching mission. These ceramics and sculptures complement the remarkable Asian works in our Grenville L. Winthrop collection, as well as the significant objects amassed more recently by Bob Mowry, thus creating a link to our existing collections and providing an important resource for studying the evolution and history of Asian art. We are deeply grateful to Walter for strengthening our collections with these works."


'Small Bottle in the Form of a Seated, Ferocious Monster.' Chinese; Six Dynasties period, Jin dynasty, third to fourth century. Yue ware: light gray stoneware with incised, molded, gouged, and appliqué decoration under celadon glaze. (Photographic Services © President and Fellows of Harvard College)