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Rules of Engagement helps - make links between personal interests and education choices
- build self-confidence in postsecondary skills
- increase
self-motivation to perform better
- engage students to think critically
- improve communication skills
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Self-motivation and Self-confidence for University Success
will be offered Tuesdays, 6:30 to 9:30 p.m., from 1 February to 29 March 2011 on the campus of the University
of New Brunswick, Saint John. Registration is $500.00, including taxes and materials. Please contact Mark Henderson for more information and registration.
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Why
do high school graduates need help making the transition to university? With the commercial development of information and computer technology (ICT) in the
1990s, our economy hummed with the excitement of being on the verge of a new golden age. But since 2000, we have seen the
Internet financial bubble burst, many of our reliable, old business institutions crumble, and job prospects plummet. Futurists
send uncertain news back from their frontier: they see nothing yet on the horizon, so we must prepare ourselves
for anything.
In preparing for the unknown, postsecondary education has taken on a critical role. Instead of virtually guaranteeing a job--as
it once did--postsecondary education now must place emphasis on the skills it sharpens as much as the knowledge
it delivers. According to national and international surveys, the majority of graduating high school students are unprepared
for the rigours of postsecondary education, particularly university. Most Canadian graduates make plans to attend university, but over twenty percent
of first-year students will drop out. Of those who remain, most will take up to six years to complete a four-year degree.
Lack of preparation and a poor match between student and program choice are the most often reported reasons for drop outs
and delays. Tuition ranges to over $5,000, and a student who must take up residency may require four times as much per year.
Graduating students often struggle beneath a financial burden and the anxiety that accompanies "taking too long"
to finish an undergraduate degree.
Rules of Engagement offers transition services to high school students planning to attend university.
By focusing students on personal interests and strengths and by developing analytical, critical thinking and communication
skills, Rules of Engagement may reduce the number of drop outs and students who experience first and second years of university
as expensive "turnaround years" in which they develop educational and career focus. |
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