Higher education can seem like a strange, new world and overwhelming challenge.
We invite you to spend some time thinking about how to get the most out of it.
This exercise assumes that you are exploring studies after secondary education.
If accepted at a school, your first-year orientation will also provide some answers.
You can help yourself work through the "big picture" by using this exercise.

Scholarships for moms have come as a blessing for mothers who desire to go back to school to upgrade themselves. Many single mothers find themselves in a situation which forces them to hold down a nine-to-five, part-time and in some cases two jobs in order to support themselves and their child/children.

I have a friend who earned a bachelor degree ten years after starting her first class. My friend, we will call her Susie for the sake of anonymity, fell victim to what we call the traditional college adult learning experience. In order to maintain a full time student designation within a traditional college format, one must sign up for a minimum of twelve credit hours per semester.

Right now, you may be considering going to college. Maybe you lost your job and want to gain new skills; maybe it is finally time to pick up where you left off and get that degree. Either way, congratulations! You are thinking about your future and hopefully will do something about it. It is never to late to start.

Like many students graduating high school, I knew I was going to go to college. A few months after my high school days had ended, I had moved into a college dormitory and was attending classes full time. This lasted for two years, with all the ups and downs common to a new college student. I struggled to find my place and make new friends.

Over 55, still working or retired and you don’t have a college degree? Right now is a good time to go after your dream of obtaining a degree. Forget about the excuses–you know the ones, too old, can’t understand computers and the big one, not enough money to pay for college because private and government grants, scholarships and tuition waivers are available for senior citizens ready to claim their college degree.

Majority of education scholarships are available for both male and female. However, there are also multiple scholarships that focus exclusively on either male candidates or female candidates.

I’m sure you have seen the ads. One or more sassy moms, dressed in hip contemporary clothes, with sensible yet fashionable haircuts, sashays forward. OBAMA ASKED MOMS TO GO BACK TO SCHOOL, the ad trumpets. Is it true?

Adult learning is frequently spoken of by adult educators as if it were a discretely separate domain, having little connection to learning in childhood or adolescence. This chapter will examine critically this claim by exploring four major research areas (self-directed learning, critical reflection, experiential learning and learning to learn) each of which have been proposed as representing unique and exclusive adult learning processes.

Part of being an effective instructor involves understanding how adults learn best. Compared to children and teens, adults have special needs and requirements as learners. Despite the apparent truth, adult learning is a relatively new area of study. The field of adult learning was pioneered by Malcom Knowles. He identified the following characteristics of adult learners: