1.4 billion students on Earth

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According to the recent Microsoft survey there are 1.4 billion students on planet Earth out of which 1.23 billion go in pre-k to high school and 170 million attend higher education.

On a global level there are 65.2 million educators – 9.2 million in higher education and 56  million in pre-k to high school.

For having a better overview what the figure of 1.4 billion students means, let me remind you that the world population is around 7.1 billion people.

Here is the Microsoft latest overview of the world statistics:

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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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Microsoft in education action

Microsoft has announced and got involved in the following three educational initiative:

Youth Spark Atlanta Launched
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Today at Washington the Microsoft Corporation has hosted the kickoff event for its Microsoft YouthSpark initiative in Atlanta, by bringing together more than 150 leading educators, government officials and non-profits to discuss the state of youth education in the area.
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Tips to search and compare online colleges

 
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When a student looks for an online college to get a degree or masters, he or she needs to look at different aspects of the colleges that are important before joining a particular programme.

Sometimes joining the first online college that you find may result in not getting a proper degree, being scammed and the worst possible scenario which is not getting a job due to the degree you may hold. In this process a lot of money and time is wasted.

Here are a few useful suggestions that can be employed to choosing the right online college to join.

  1. Credentials:

Does the particular college have the basic educational standards required to function and give you a degree is very crucial in choosing an online college. If they don’t have the basic requirements then it is a waste of time joining these institutions because the degree that is given will not be recognised in today’s work environment.
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Online adult education spectrum

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By definition adult education involves the training and development of adult individuals in certain vocations or subjects for a variety of reasons. Adult education is not the same as the traditional education of young individuals, since the methods that are employed in capitalization on the accumulated knowledge and life experience of the adult individual are different.

Because of these factors, adults can use what they have learned during their life, add depth to their educational experience, and have a better understanding of how to apply it to their current life situations. Though often done at the workplace as training and development, or in a classroom setting for continuing education or basic education, the adult education is becoming more and more common to see enrollment in online adult education programs.

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Get a degree with a busy schedule

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If someone has told you twenty years ago that you would be able to seat at home, in front of a computer and get the degree you wanted, it is very unlikely that you would have not believed it.
Amazingly, the world has changed since then and the people learning from a computer to earn a degree and even work from home is now a reality. Here is a an overview of some of the most popular online degrees being earned.
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