Free College Tuition From Amazon

Recently, Amazon announced it will cover university and college tuition for its hourly workers at more than 180 higher education institutions across the US.

This support is available through the company’s Career Choice Program to both full-time and part-time employees that have worked with Amazon for at least a 3-month period. This video explains it very well:

The program allows the company’s more than 750,000 workers to earn a certification in a relevant industry subject field or earn an associate’s or bachelor’s degree from one of the participating schools at Amazon’s expense.

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Onsego helps students who drop out of high school

Onsego is the publisher of an online GED preparatory course that supports students looking to pass the GED test in a highly effective way.

The GED Testing Service recognizes Onsego as a trusted supplier of GED prep material. There are just twenty publishers of GED prep materials that are on the list of recognized GED® prep lessons suppliers by GED Testing Service.

What is the GED test?

The GED test, comprised of four individual and separately available sub-exams, offers people who dropped out of high school before graduating the opportunity to earn a credential that has the same value as a common high school diploma.

If they pass the four GED exams (covering Language Arts, Science, Social Studies, and Math), their states will issue a High School Equivalency (HSE) diploma that is all over North America accepted in lieu of a high school credential.

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Marketing Education and Rebranding

Television networks and advertising-supported cable channels like CNN and ESPN have felt somewhat insulated from competition for their advertising revenue because of the importance of video in communicating brand-oriented advertising. This is what you’ll learn when you study Marketing Education and Rebranding. Today, this sort of activity is key.

Leaving aside the prospect of steadily increasing bandwidth in Internet environments, making video a more feasible format for the Internet is key, and what happens to this advertising revenue when marketers shift an increasing share of their marketing budgets to more targeted marketing formats due to the superior targeting capabilities of the infomediary?

Nor is this impact limited to traditional, advertising-supported media. I may sound like bragging and wise-guy bitchy with my college degree, even though I used these GED resources to get my secondary education degree before I could go to college, but what about retail stores that today heavily depend for their profitability on promotional spending by product vendors trying to reach customers at the time of purchase?

This is where my education helps me to analyze these new developments appropriately. Wiseguy-ish or not, it definitely helps!

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