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Getting On : Education
Distance learning courses | from silver - Tuesday, January 18, 2005
accessed 1851 times Does anybody have any experience trying to use somthing called Education Direct or Thomson Learning. My little brother has just joined the ranks of us detractors and he is still convinced that the diplomas gained through this correspondance course can be used to access universities and the like. If anyone has any knowledge of this (perferably first-hand), please get back to me. Am primarily looking for feedback from Europe, as that's where we are, but am interested in any experiences. txs all. |
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Reader's comments on this article Add a new comment on this article |  from ameliaus
Thursday, June 02, 2005 - 23:07
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I'm pretty sure that throughout the 'western' system, that most local, primary level (1st 2 years, or associates, in the U.S.) schools offer a variety of their curriculum online, and it is a hell of a lot cheaper than, say, University of Phoenix ($12,000 per semester), or other less well known distance sources. Remedial classes are included, so are a smattering of higher level, like some maths sciences and computer. Just call the local school to see who does it.
{University of Maryland has an incredibly complete and respected program for upper level, but not cheap, just distance; an entire college in their university - the military abroad uses it, as well as non US citizens.}
Actually you can get an entire associates (2 year) degree, and in most of these local schools it is very cheap (maybe $500/semester including books for 15 hours) and entirely credible/accredited. Often a straight transfer into a bachelors program. Typically you have to show up for tests though, or do proctored ones at your local school. I'm doing this this summer, so this info is fresh - plus I really looked around before choosing.
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| | | |  From ameliaus
Friday, June 03, 2005, 08:37
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actually, here and elsewhere, financial aid is complete. The deal I spoke of above, with the Associates Degree, is completely covered by the Pell Grant, and you get back whatever they don't need. As in: $1,700 Pell/semester, you spend maybe $600 on tuition, boods and supplies, and the rest is yours. Its so people can afford to go to school or better their lives. They also have other programs depending on what you're going for. Most medical related ones have other incentives, for example.(reply to this comment) |
| | from Temporary
Tuesday, January 25, 2005 - 12:51
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ya know what? I knew it was a stupid idea to even consider posting on here again. Ciao people, this is my last post. GET A LIFE!!!
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Monday, January 24, 2005 - 12:14
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Probably best to go into a college or university in the country where you are planning to use the certificate and ask if is recognised or have it valuated. Colleges sometimes have a list that they use for assessing foreign certificates, etc.
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| from exister
Monday, January 24, 2005 - 11:35
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You are hosed. Go back to the big square that says "START" and proceed from there.
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Monday, June 06, 2005, 11:04
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Damn, I wonder what state that was in?? In Texas, community colleges are required by state law that all applicants pass a test called the TASP (in addition to having a GED or HS diploma). It’s not a hard test at all, but it shows that they do have some standards. A cool thing about CCs is that most coursework is transferable to four year schools. I dropped calculus II at my university b/c it seemed so hard and I was scared of getting a "C" so I enrolled in the saem class at the local CC and it was an easy “A” (and I still learned something).
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | From conan
Thursday, June 02, 2005, 18:22
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I’d like to congratulate you on your success at being accepted into a real school using Family work. That being said, you’re a fucking idiot! All your posts have done to date is prove that you’re a naïve kid with no real world experience, and still deeply entrenched in cult dogma, thought patterns, and reaction expectations.
You were the one back on January 25th to say that you were not going to be posting on here again as we need to “get a life”! May I ask you why your pathetic excuse of a cultie is still parading on our site being a little jerk trying to rub your sentimental bullshit in our faces like we actually give a flying fuck that you got accepted to school because of TF’s high school papers? Dude, you seriously need to grow up because you’re going to be in for some tough shit if you don’t wake the fuck up and see what’s going on.
If you’re so in love with TF and its doctrines etc, why did you leave? You seem to be better suited to a life where all your important decisions are made for you and where thinking is done by your superiors. (reply to this comment) |
| | | | | from Temporary
Monday, January 24, 2005 - 10:59
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Sylvia? What are you saying? Just because I'm not in the family doesn't mean I'm a detractor! I still wouldn't trade my Family years for anything in the world!!! I love you immensely but I am no detractor! k? LOVE YOU!!! Hi to Vesi
~Dick~
P.S. not a detractor, ya dig?
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Friday, June 03, 2005, 09:16
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Temporary,
Have a little respect for those that are older than you. The Family International would never have given its children an education, had it not been for the ex-member community that alerted the media to conditions in the cult. Your generation did not have to live through the horrors that we did. It was your older brothers and sisters that were abused and denied of an education. It was we who left with no education who struggled to survive and then fought against the injustices dealt to us in TF. And it was only because of the attention of the media and various governments that TF was forced to create the Charter. The same Charter that ensured your education.
I am glad that you have been accepted to college but do not come on this site and disrespect those who cleared the path to your current opportunities.(reply to this comment) |
| | From GoldenMic
Thursday, June 02, 2005, 17:18
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Big Fucking Deal! In my own slimy little cult, just like yours, the education was ridiculous and sub-standard. Frankly, as the "golden child" there, it was my move into home-study education that led to community-wide home schooling and destroyed any realistic possibility that most of my second-generation peers would have the skills necessary to be succsessful outside of the cult. Even so, I was a bright lad and managed to get a diploma from the American School, a just-acceptable high school correspondence diploma, purely the result of my above-average natural intelligence. Then, despite my piss-poor education and soley because of my natural intelligence, I managed to fake my way through college until I could gain enough skills (intellectual and social) and knowledge, and get a Master's Degree. Now, I am months away from recieving a doctorate. Meanwhile, almost all of my peers from the cult STILL can't write an intelligent-sounding paragraph, particularly those few peers who remain in the cult. They still demonstrate almost no critical-thinking skills, and their profoundly limited base of knowledge is an embaressment, ongoing evidence of the abuse and neglect perpetrated against them. As for your ability to get into college with a near-worthless diploma, many colleges will accept any old rag of a diploma, which means nothing, and does not change the essential truth that the average cult-educated person is severely hampered by their lack of basic skills and knowledge.(reply to this comment) |
| | | | | From GoldenMic
Saturday, June 04, 2005, 02:16
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Hey, I am not in your cult or anyone else's cult anymore, so I don't act as a "silent participant" for anyone. If you don't like it, continue to attack and insult me, but you are absolutely cracked if you think I will EVER be silent because somebody orders me around. As for my having a degree, I certainly did not bring it up to impress you or anyone, but to make it clear that one can go all the way through the educational process on a near-worthless high school diploma. Also, since most of the people on my own little website are as hostile and abusive to outsiders as you are, even those who are second-generation cult victims, I try to be understanding, but do you think there will ever be a day when you begin to understand that the freedom we have achieved by leaving our child-hell is not a justification for treating others as abusively as we were treated? Do you ever get tired of acting out in the exact same "we are exclusive", "we have a right to treat outsiders badly" as the very people who raised us? I honestly do not say this to be combative, but because I am repeatedly amazed and dismayed by the near-automatic hostility of cult victims, even among those they should be finding common cause with. I know I am forty-fucking-eight years old, having had the bad grace to be among the first adult children of a 60's cult that left the cult, but my parents did not ask me about joining any more than yours did, and I am strongly triggered every time I hear this elitest and cynical dismissiveness, so disgustingly reminiscent of the way my cult's elders treated me and my brothers and sisters, and the other innocent children in their control.(reply to this comment) |
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Thursday, January 20, 2005 - 14:35
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My friend who just completed her master's degree in Instructional Design, says that Open University is the way to go. http://www.open.ac.uk/
Good luck!
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