[Magdalen] Gap year (or more)

[Grace Cangialosi]

My sister-in-law worked for years at the American Council on Education where her job was to evaluate all kinds of military jobs and training for their college credit equivalency. It was a fascinating job, and she got to visit military bases all over the world. The output was a huge catalog listing of jobs and their credit ratings so that colleges would know how to give credits to folks returning to civilian life and wanting a college education.

On June 5, 2015, at 4:06 PM, Susan Hutchinson <shutchinsonca at gmail.com> wrote:


On 2015-06-05, at 6:45 AM, Jim Guthrie wrote:

> Many employers will take that experience as very
> valuable, so that's a reasonable alternative to college.

The University of Manitoba takes some military course work as equivalent to undergraduate course work as part of the requirements for a bachelor of arts or a bachelor of science degree. Other courses can be completed online/correspondence while in the service. Of course, these days it is hard to get in to the armed forces in Canada and the competition means that virtually all officers have already got degrees and recruits will have a high school diploma or GED.

Military training in the traditional trades, police work, flying, electronics, health care etc in Canada are well-respected and even a 3 year stint will give you an advantage in the civilian employment game. Assuming, of course, you are not dealing with a raging case of PTSD from serving too many tours in a stupid war which makes the PM and his cronies feel good.

blessings
Susan

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