Lucrative Career Options to Eye Upon in 2014

So, what’s your career plans for 2014? Have you kicked off with your researches in regard to the lucrative career programmes? If you have done so, have you found out all those courses that would play a key role in enhancing your career prospects?

According to Marie Zimenoff, the job search strategist for career management working in a career coaching company said that choosing the right degree is equivalent to possessing an appropriate work experience and right skills. She said that in this world of growing competition, you must be ready to exhibit your innovative skills in your resume. A mere degree will not work wonders unless you earn a relevant work experience along with it. 

So, when experts were asked to opine on some of the most demanding career choices for undergraduates in 2014, a good number of courses came out in the list. However, in order to keep you away from a dilemma, here are 4 best courses that are sure to score high in strengthening one’s job prospects:

• Bachelor in Finance – Business will always be in high demand and there is no doubt about it. This is a big reason why the career expert of LinkedIn, Nicole Williams, considers finance to be an important career option for undergraduates in 2014.

According to her, Finance is going to be such a career option which students would be able to use in different professions. The Department of Labour has even predicted that there will be a growth of 23% in Finance between 2010 and 2020.

• Diploma in Business – Since the demand of having work experiences is almost equivalent to that of a degree, several international business schools are now giving students the opportunity to study Level 5 diploma programmes online. In fact, it’s not only students but the working professionals also benefit a lot from these courses.

In fact, the modules of these courses are designed in such a manner that students can find it beneficial to apply their course based knowledge at work. Earning an undergraduate diploma in business moreover will help one to remain exposed to esteemed jobs in the long-run.

• Bachelor in Accounting – Individuals who have always showed interest and enthusiasm towards accounting can also predict to step into a prospective future. According to Zimenoff, “Accounting is in demand because businesses need to be able to track and analyze their financial transactions to make the best business decisions.” .

Predictions for accountants also seem to be quite strong. The U.S Department of Labor said that the employment growth for financial experts will be 16% in between 2010 and 2020.

• Bachelor in Computer Science – If you think you are good with science and technology, Bachelor in Computer Science is of course a brilliant option to take up in 2014. The projected job growth for software developers is 30% between 2010 and 2020.

Moreover, Computer Science is such a subject that would help individuals specialise in digital system designing, artificial intelligence, software engineering and theory on formal languages.

So, if any of these career options, whether it’s an undergraduate business diploma or a degree course in Accounting, seem to be great for you in terms of your interest and career prospects, just pick it up without further questions. Good luck!!

Scottish Government Needs to Introduce Beneficial Education Funding Scheme

 

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According to a study of higher education funding, underprivileged students in Scotland have been left worse off after deduction to government grants, which middle-class families have escaped.

Lucy Hunter Blackburn, Scottish government’s former civil servant, found out that free university tuition and cuts in funding lower-earning students suggests middle-class families and students will be richer by £20m a year. 

She says that lower-income families, which also include students enrolled for further education at colleges, have to bear high overall cost of at least £32m each year after the scholarship cuts have compelled them to ask for larger loans.

Hunter Blackburn said, "Free tuition in Scotland is the perfect middle-class, feel-good policy. It's superficially universal, but in fact it benefits the better-off most, and is funded by pushing the poorest students further and further into debt.

“The Scottish system for financing full-time students in higher education does not have the egalitarian, progressive effects commonly claimed for it," adds Hunter Blackburn.

The figures appeared in her thorough evaluation of student grants across the UK for the Economic and Social Research Council and Centre for Research in Education inclusion. It also revealed that low-income families in Welsh had the most liberal financial support packages.

Hunter Blackburn had implemented the student graduate endowment scheme, which was introduced in 2001. Critics saw this scheme as a fee, and consequently Alex Salmond’s first government scrapped the scheme in 2007. 

She said that there are several factors that middle-class families benefitted from. The cuts in maintenance allowances became effective for the first time previous autumn and have affected thousands of eligible students. It has caused a sharp drop in allowances for families earning above £17,000, forcing students to stay at home or to go for larger loans for payment of their living costs.

A Scottish government spokesman agreed to the figures presented by Hunter Blackburn but claimed that the funding package was aimed to ensure more sustainable and easier to repay costs of studying and is the simplest scheme in the UK. 

The Scottish government spokesman said, "This analysis fails to properly recognise the hugely positive impact on students of the Scottish government's commitment to providing free tuition. In England, most students have no choice but to take out loans to cover fees of up to £27,000 over three years."

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However, Kezie Dugdale, the Scottish Labour’s education spokeswoman, confronted the claim by saying, "The SNP's [Scottish National party] choices have meant our colleges and our poorest young people have borne the brunt of the cuts. Any sort of analysis shows the SNP's policies to be achieving the opposite of what they claim.”

"We need a proper conversation about how we fund universities and our colleges. But I fear that with the referendum, the UK election and the Scottish elections over the next 24 months, the SNP will have no interest whatsoever in taking this beyond the slogans that they never tire of repeating," she added.

The Scottish government needs to come up with education funding scheme that proves beneficial to everybody, especially to the underprivileged families and students.

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