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There is always a high demand for qualified employees poorly in all areas of the health care industry. Among the many areas of interest is the position of a phlebotomy technician. It’s a career that will be rewarding personally and financially. A certificate or diploma will give you the training to be qualified to apply for this position.

The primary task of a phlebotomist is to draw blood from the veins and arteries. Most of us have had a blood test at a given time and are familiar with this procedure. As a trained specialist, you can have phlebotomist jobs in hospitals, laboratories, medical offices, clinics and other health care facilities.

You can choose what type of education to continue. There are schools with traditional lessons on campus and those available online to learn this skill. A certificate is usually a condition of obtaining employment in this field. While training in blood collecting is the main purpose of the certificate or diploma, you can perform other tasks as well. Read more…

So this is an experiment of sorts. Last summer I was asked to train some college students in C#. The goal was to get them ready to teach some very basic programming to high school students for a short summer program. The students I was to train were in South Dakota. Now South Dakota is a wonderful place but I didn’t quite have the travel funds to go out and do this in person so I did it online. Since I had the capability to record the training I did. Later I gathered it all up and put it on the Faculty Connection in the Faculty Resource section. You can find this C# Mini Course here. What’s in it?

First off there are about 6 to 8 hours of me lecturing and demonstrating what I was talking about. basically just me teaching the way I would do in person – more or less. You can see the slides I used and watch me demo code examples. That’s a start but I also packaged up the PowerPoint slides that I used. That way if a teacher wants to use them their way they can do that. I also included sample and demo code that I used. Hopefully teachers will find that useful as well. There i

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A Connecticut veterans group that must close its doors because of lagging membership is concluding its work by awarding a scholarship to a veteran attending Central Connecticut State University.

The few remaining members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 9945 in Wethersfield are scheduled to present the scholarship Friday afternoon, during CCSU’s Veterans Day ceremony on its New Britain campus.

That once-large post has dwindled in recent years and the recent deaths of several members left it without enough people to fill its offices and maintain its charter.

Friday’s ceremony will be held in CCSU’s Alumni Hall Student Center. It is open to the public.

The university will also present awards to a World War II veteran for community service, and to a U.S. Navy veteran currently attending CCSU.

IHELP’s , Institute For Higher Education Leadership And Policy,newest brief discusses the findings of a new report from the American Association of Community Colleges titled, The Road Ahead: A Look at Trends in the Educational Attainment of Community College Students. The brief offers an analysis of the AACC report’s claims that the investments made in a community college education are “paying off” due to the higher increase in certificates and degrees awarded by community colleges than in total enrollment. While there is cause for celebration with respect to increases in enrollment and college completions, a closer look at the data shows some reasons for caution related to the prominence of short-term certificates among the increased awards and to minority rates of improvement that lag the improvement rate among white students.

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By S. Thomas Coleman
For the AJC

Here are some significant things that went down in Week 11.

Hancock Central superintendent speaks out. On Friday attorneys for Warren County Schools released text messages reportedly from former Warren County head football coach Marleau Blount, now an assistant on the staff at Hancock County, to some current Warren County players (). The messages, which have an aggressively adversarial tone, were sent the week of the Warren County-Hancock Central game (Oct. 14), after which a brawl broke out that sent current Warren County head coach David Daniels to the hospital with significant facial injuries that required surgery.

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation is looking into the matter. Prior to the release of the text messages, Hancock County Schools Superintendent Gwendolyn Jefferson Reeves commented on several aspects of the issue, which add some interesting context to the story .

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