Thinking and Linking by Joanne Jacobs
At McDonald’s Hamburger University, Jiffy Lube University, the University of Farmer’s and other corporate training programs, employees can learn business skills and earn college credits that start them on the path to a degree.
“Gainful employment” regulations will be revised, after being thrown out last year in court. The U.S. Education Department has announced plans to use the regulatory process — not legislation — to advance its college aid and affordability agenda.
Job seekers don’t need a bachelor’s degree and experience to work at McDonald’s, reports the Boston Globe.
An independent job search site inaccurately claimed the McDonald’s in Winchendon, Massachusetts was looking for college graduates with one to two years of experience to work as cashiers.
McDonald’s cashiers need a bachelor’s degree and one to two years of experience, according to a want ad for a McDonald’s in Winchedon, Massachusetts. ”Get a weekly paycheck with a side order of food, folks and fun,” says the ad.
Degree inflation gone wild or a cruel joke? It’s hard to say.
“Permaterns” — permanent interns — are working for low and no pay through their 20s and sometimes into their 30s, reports The Week. ”For many in Washington, the American dream starts with a highbrow internship that pays $4.35 an hour — then another, and maybe another.” Graduates with poli sci degrees are a dime a dozen — or less.
NY Teacher took her second and third graders from their Brooklyn school on a field trip to the Met to see the Egyptian collection. The kids loved it so much, many are “pressuring their parents to take them back . . . with the free family passes the museum gave us.”
Then the third graders were taken on a field trip to Toys ‘R Us and McDonald’s in Times Square. She asks: What was the point?
Via Gotham Schools.
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