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Support for education and Internet libraries

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Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, has been having activities for over a decade.

Its first activities have been in 1994 and ever since then, they have been working in three mayor areas:

  1. Global development program,
  2. Global health program,
  3. United States Program in education development.

With the motto: Every person deserves to live healthy, productive life, all the foundation’s grant making and advocacy efforts support this mission statement.
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Education predictions

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With the developments in the education and the increasing number of online possibilities to gain knowledge many of us are asking the question, what will be education of future look like?

According to a recent cover story in The American Interest, it will not look like the current one, because the colleges will cease to exist !! Author Nathan Harden estimates that in 50 years, half of the approximately 4,500 colleges and universities in the U.S. will cease to exist.

This will happen through technology development, virtual classrooms, lectures through streaming videos, online exams and all that we have already seen being developed.  These innovations will crop up at major academic institutions, but they will only proliferate on a much larger scale and disrupt the higher education system as we know it.
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Student loans don’t have to break you

The average student loan debt sits right around $29,000, according to a report by the Institute of College Access & Success’ Project on Student Debt.

Depending on your choice of school and your choice of major, this number could be astronomically higher.

In the meantime, the Chronicle of Higher Education found that roughly 20 million students attend college each year and that out of those 20 million, 12 million take out loans.
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3 Tips to make your college degree pay off

Getting a college degree typically means obtaining a career that pays well and has many additional perks. However, in the current economy there is no guarantee that a job is waiting for you after college. To make matters worse, the average college tuition is rising much more rapidly than that of inflation. Overall, getting a college degree can pay off in the long run, here are three essential tips to make your degree work for you.
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