What if employers didn't care whether applicants held a college diploma but instead asked what educational "badges" they had collected?
The hope I saw on my father's beaming face as I walked across the stage to get my college diploma.
Like it or not, an important part of any college diploma is the reputation of the school that awards it.
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The hope that I saw in my dad's beaming face as I crossed the stage to get my college diploma.
If you want to be a billionaires, should you spend tens of thousands of dollars to earn a college diploma?
The Georgetown study makes a compelling case for getting a college diploma.
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Eventually it learned to tie shoes, crossed a stage to pick up a college diploma, backpacked through Europe and changed my baby's diapers.
If one of this year's high school graduates decides he wants nothing more from life than to be a billionaire, should he plunk down tens of thousands of dollars and work for years to earn a college diploma?
The reason for this is because, according to the Department of Education, high school students are not technically enrolled in a degree-granting program because they do not yet have a college diploma, even though they are earning college credits.
Though politicians, educators and their media enablers would have us believe that the act of earning a college diploma makes short people tall, turns bad writers into Somerset Maugham, and the mathematically challenged into highly-paid engineers, reality is happily intruding.
In July 2012 he graduated from Gower College, Swansea with a diploma in music technology.
For those with a high school diploma but no college degree, only 55% had jobs before the recession.
Males between 25 and 34 years old who have a high-school diploma but no college degree had a 10.9% unemployment rate in November.
D. recipients who went to college earned a degree, compared to 65% of students who went on to college with a high school diploma.
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The college will award its own Diploma and students will take University of London degrees, making a combined award of BA Hons (London) DNC.
And that's why we'll foster what are called early college high schools that allow students to earn a high school diploma and an associate's degree or college credit at the same time.
We need a generous IDEA budget so people like me with severe disabilities can graduate from high school with a diploma and go to college.
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He was unable to speak English but went on to gain 14 GCSEs at school, and has been studying for a sports diploma at Sittingbourne Community College.
That's one reason why college enrollment jumped by a third last decade and why for-profit schools that make getting a diploma ultraconvenient now enroll 1 in 10 college students.
There is now a seat for virtually anyone with a high-school diploma who wants to attend college.
So far only one private school, Wellington College, says it will teach the diploma, and then only in engineering, widely expected to be the most rigorous of the vocational subjects.
The college degree now increasingly represents what the high school diploma did in 1950 or 1960.
There's a lot to be said for going to college, but don't swallow the propaganda that the diploma is a great investment.
The for-profit college business model is essentially built on these lines: diploma mills which exist solely on the government dime and yet are almost entirely unregulated.
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When she graduated from Mid Michigan Community College, she could barely walk across the stage to get her diploma.
But even as a college degree has become more important than ever, the cost of that diploma has skyrocketed.
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This not only increases the cost of getting a diploma--it leads many students to drop out of college altogether.
An increasing number of advocates for online learning have come out in favor of mandating that states require students take at least one college- or career-prep course online to earn a high school diploma.
When most new jobs in America require more than a high school diploma, higher education -- whether at a four-year college, at a two-year program -- it can't be a luxury.
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