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* Job Stability & Security
*Career Satisfaction

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Confident people are often highly successful in both their work and personal lives. However, if you're not one of the lucky ones born with high levels of confidence, there are ways to boost your self-esteem. We might be a little biased, but we think that education and online learning are great ways to do this. Here are five ways education can improve your confidence.

Communication

Whether you're presenting ideas to fellow students in discussions or structuring arguments for an assignment, studying online or in a classroom definitely requires you to develop your communication skills. And because students are building on these skills in a supportive learning atmosphere, they often take chances they might not have felt confident doing before. And gradually, this improved confidence will transfer over into other areas (like the workplace or their personal lives).

Decision-making

The best decisions are backed by knowledge and data. And when you have a thorough understanding of your business or subject area (as a result of education), you're in the best position for confident decision-making. For example, students who study for a business qualification are equipped with the skills to make better and bolder decisions on finance, project management, business strategy, managing teams and much, much more.

Meeting challenges

Studying for a higher education is hard work, and studying online and part-time as our students do is an additional challenge. But as you become accustomed to fitting assignment deadlines around family and work commitments, a challenging project in the workplace can suddenly seem much easier to manage. Students are able to use their transferable study skills such as organisation, time-keeping and problem solving to take control of a difficult task and manage it successfully.

Receiving feedback

Receiving negative comments or criticism on a project you've worked on can often be a huge confidence blow. It can also deter many people trying to lead projects or take chances again in the future. Receiving regular tutor feedback is an essential part of studying for a degree online, but it will always be both constructive and sympathetic. By continually receiving advice and support, our students quickly become more confident and able to react positively to constructive criticism in the workplace.

Self-confidence

Achieving a degree is no small task, and is the well-earned result of years of sacrifice and dedication. Therefore, it's only natural that graduates should be extremely proud of their achievements. Particularly for people who might not have thought that higher education was possible, completing a degree course can provide a huge lift to their self-esteem. And this boost in self-confidence can often propel graduates to apply for a new career, take on new responsibilities, start a new business and much more!

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Confident people are often highly successful in both their work and personal lives. However, if you're not one of the lucky ones born with high levels of confidence, there are ways to boost your self-esteem. We might be a little biased, but we think that education and online learning are great ways to do this.

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*Exercise more frequently
*Better Dietary Habits

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Penn State RB Saquon Barkley is strong. In fact, he's one of the strongest young men to ever play at Penn State, and this is a quantifiable fact. Last March, Barkley matched a program record (equaling a lineman) for biggest power clean at 390 pounds.

Thursday, he bested that with a 405 pound rep:

Here's just a taste of what Barkley was doing :

According to PennLive.com, the 222-pound Barkley has squatted 495 pounds seven times, benched 390, and run a 4.38 second 40-yard dash this winter.

That was before he burst onto the scene as the electric spark plug to a high-octane Penn State offense. He is a physical marvel, and his strength coach refers to him as a once-a-decade talent.

If he leaves school for the NFL draft next spring, he'll likely smash his tests at the combine and is certainly on track to be a really high selection despite his relatively expendable position. Our Dan Kadar has him as the best running back prospect in the country already.

Have fun trying to tackle this guy.

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*Running back* Barkley broke a PSU weightlifting record

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Penn State RB Saquon Barkley is strong. In fact, he's one of the strongest young men to ever play at Penn State, and this is a quantifiable fact. Last March, Barkley matched a program record (equaling a lineman) for biggest power clean at 390 pounds.

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* Children more likely to go to college & obtain a better career
*More likely to save money for children's college

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Whether parents attended college has a great deal to say about whether their children attend college.

Analysis of data taken from recent US census surveys* show that higher educational opportunity is strongly associated with parental educational attainment.

Parents, possibly the greatest predictor of whether your child goes to college, is you.

Trends and patterns vary according to factors such as gender, race, ethnicity, and income. However, the strong relationship between parents' own educational ambitions and goals and the educational achievement of their kids has been widely studied.

"These studies show that students are at a distinct disadvantage," according to a study commissioned by the National Center for Education Statistics**, when it comes to postsecondary access if their parents did not attend college.

Parents who model education attainment for their child are more likely to have a child who seeks higher education immediately after high school.

Decades of research suggest that parents educational attainment is the "floor" for the children's attainment. "That is, if parents are high school graduates, the children will be at least high school graduates; if parents attended college, the children will at least attend college." ***

Moreover, parents who have a college degree are more likely to have a child who stays in college and attains a degree.

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Only about 30 percent of 18 to 24 year olds whose parents did not graduate from high school reach college, compared to about 85 percent of 18 to 24 year olds where the householder has a bachelor's degree or more from college.

* Day, Jennifer C., and Curry, Andrea E. (June 1998). School Enrollment-Social and Economic Characteristics of Students: October 1996 (Update). U.S. Bureau of the Census, Current Population Reports, P20-500. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

** Students Whose Parents Did Not Go to College: Postsecondary Access, Persistence, and Attainment Susan P. Choy, MPR Associates, Inc National Center for Education Statistics

*** Center for Demography and Ecology University of Wisconsin-Madison The Effects of Parent's Unrealized Educational Aspirations on Children's Educational Outcomes

Jennifer Sheridan

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Whether parents attended college has a great deal to say about whether their children attend college. Analysis of data taken from recent US census surveys* show that higher educational opportunity is strongly associated with parental educational attainment. Parents, possibly the greatest predictor of whether your child goes to college, is you.

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*Greater Knowledge of Current Events
* Less Likely to be incarcerated

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* SELF CONFIDENCE
* Leadership Skills

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Confident people are often highly successful in both their work and personal lives. However, if you're not one of the lucky ones born with high levels of confidence, there are ways to boost your self-esteem. We might be a little biased, but we think that education and online learning are great ways to do this. Here are five ways education can improve your confidence.

Communication

Whether you're presenting ideas to fellow students in discussions or structuring arguments for an assignment, studying online or in a classroom definitely requires you to develop your communication skills. And because students are building on these skills in a supportive learning atmosphere, they often take chances they might not have felt confident doing before. And gradually, this improved confidence will transfer over into other areas (like the workplace or their personal lives).

Decision-making

The best decisions are backed by knowledge and data. And when you have a thorough understanding of your business or subject area (as a result of education), you're in the best position for confident decision-making. For example, students who study for a business qualification are equipped with the skills to make better and bolder decisions on finance, project management, business strategy, managing teams and much, much more.

Meeting challenges

Studying for a higher education is hard work, and studying online and part-time as our students do is an additional challenge. But as you become accustomed to fitting assignment deadlines around family and work commitments, a challenging project in the workplace can suddenly seem much easier to manage. Students are able to use their transferable study skills such as organisation, time-keeping and problem solving to take control of a difficult task and manage it successfully.

Receiving feedback

Receiving negative comments or criticism on a project you've worked on can often be a huge confidence blow. It can also deter many people trying to lead projects or take chances again in the future. Receiving regular tutor feedback is an essential part of studying for a degree online, but it will always be both constructive and sympathetic. By continually receiving advice and support, our students quickly become more confident and able to react positively to constructive criticism in the workplace.

Self-confidence

Achieving a degree is no small task, and is the well-earned result of years of sacrifice and dedication. Therefore, it's only natural that graduates should be extremely proud of their achievements. Particularly for people who might not have thought that higher education was possible, completing a degree course can provide a huge lift to their self-esteem. And this boost in self-confidence can often propel graduates to apply for a new career, take on new responsibilities, start a new business and much more!

Are you in need of a confidence boost?
Download a prospectus today
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Confident people are often highly successful in both their work and personal lives. However, if you're not one of the lucky ones born with high levels of confidence, there are ways to boost your self-esteem. We might be a little biased, but we think that education and online learning are great ways to do this.

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*More clear Sense of Self Identity & awareness
*More Effective Problem solving skill