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Continuing Education For Veterinary Technicians

For most Veterinary Technicians the requirement of additional hours of continuing education is a state standard for renewal of your license. Many states are now requiring sixteen hours of significant course work or seminars/workshops or college credit courses for continuing education credit. That means you need to be on the look out for courses and training that will help you to reach your state requirement. Many of these courses are now offered through community colleges and even offered online through many universities and colleges. You will want to begin your program for continuing education for veterinary technicians as soon as possible.

These are courses which will add to your professional training and knowledge as a Veterinary Technician. You will be glad to have the opportunity to learn some of the latest trends and advancements being made in Veterinarian Medicine. Your local professional chapter of the AVMA or your state will be able to help you with continuing your education credits.

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Distance Learning – Education for the 21st Century

Chances are you know someone who is working toward a college or post-college degree via the Internet. Perhaps you yourself have attended online classes to continue your education, obtain a certification, or to improve you chances for advancement in your job.

More and more people are finding they can earn their degree from an accredited online university which offers the same challenge and quality of a traditional classroom in an environment which allows them to fit education into a life that might be too busy for a more conventional method of instruction.

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Education and productivity growth in a market economy.

The purpose of this paper is to describe the impact of investment in education on U.S. economic growth. Beginning with the seminal contributions of Becker [1964], Mincer [1974], and Schultz [1961], economists have found it useful to characterize the benefits of education by means of the notion of investment in human capital.(1) This idea captures the fact that investment in human beings, like investment in tangible forms of capital such as buildings and industrial equipment, generates a stream of future benefits. Education is regarded as an investment in human capital, since benefits accrue to an educated individual over a lifetime of activities.

One of the most important benefits of education is higher income from participation in the labor market. This increase in income is the key to understanding the link between investment in education and economic growth. People differ enormously in effectiveness on the job. Substituting more effective for less effective workers increases output per worker. More highly educated or better trained people are more productive than less educated or poorly trained people. However, education and training are costly, so that substitution of people with more education and training requires investment in human capital.

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