Top business schools understand the importance of such networks and actively encourage their graduates to maintain professional links after courses are completed.
Over time, particularly if antibiotic courses are not completed, the resistant strains become dominant in hospitals.
In 1999 the program began offering Cornell credit for completed courses.
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O'Neal graduates with a 3.81 grade point average and he completed 16 courses mostly using satellite classrooms and video conferencing, the university said.
The Forest Service said Veseth, a student at Lewis-Clark State College, in Lewiston, whose older brother also is a wildland firefighter in Idaho, had completed the safety courses required of every person in her crew.
But 85% of the people who completed the sales skills courses either have a job offer or on-the-job training.
More than 94, 000 people completed hair and beauty courses last year, even though there were only 18, 000 new jobs in the sector, it added.
For those enrolled in secondary education, two courses at this level of schooling are completed in each academic year which corresponds to a period of ten months.
For example, ATEK literacy programme graduates, Wilfredo Apaza and Marisol Martinez, completed formal secondary education and teacher training courses and have now been recruited by a local bilingual school to teach religion and literacy in Quechua.
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