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Avoid Truancy to Claim Education Tax Credits
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Avoid Truancy to Claim Education Tax Credits

- by Khloe Jordan
Avoid Truancy to Claim Education Tax Credits

The U.S. government is happy to help students pay for their continuing education so long as they attend class. Truancy has resulted in a billion-dollar tax headache for the U.S. Federal Government, according to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration, the office that is mandated with keeping an eye on the operations of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). The Administration’s investigators found that approximately 2.1 million taxpayers may have received $3.2 billion in American Opportunity Tax Credit claims erroneously between January 1, 2010, and May 28, 2010.

The American Opportunity Tax Credit was created in 2009 to assist students in meeting the cost of college. It gives out $2,500 toward college costs, much more than the $1,800 Hope Credit, which it replaced. Even better, $1,000 of the student tax relief is refundable, meaning that one is eligible for a refund if they don’t owe any taxes when they file. …

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All About University Foundation Courses

- by Khloe Jordan
All About University Foundation Courses

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If your first language is not English but you wish to student at a UK university, a University Foundation course is an excellent step towards getting you where you want to be.

Even if your English skills are good, a University Foundation course will also improve the academic and research skills which are essential for higher education in the UK. The aim of university access courses is to ensure that students are prepared in all ways for UK higher education – that includes both linguistically and psychologically. Preparing in this way means that students are then able to make the absolute most of their degree course or MA in the UK.

Courses are available which are tailored for an undergraduate degree or an MA and the programmes are split into language skills and academic skills.

Undergraduate university foundation courses are aimed at those wishing to enter undergraduate arts, …

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Getting Your Child Motivated for A Better Education

- by Khloe Jordan

Getting Your Child Motivated for A Better Education

According to Psych Central, in the United States, there are more than about 30 percent of students failing to graduate high school and what is even more shocking, is in the urban settings, there are more than 70 percent of students who fail to graduate high school. Because of this high rate of students failing to graduate, this has cost the United States billions of dollars in lost of productivity and for crime rates to increase. It is very important for more parents and staff to become aware of the severity of the students failing in schools. There are more and more children ending up homeless and or involved in gang activity because they are not able to graduate school. Some of the root causes for children failing to graduate is that they have a huge lack of motivation to continue to be successful in school. Many children in …

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What Business Executives Can Gain from Professional Training

- by Khloe Jordan

What Business Executives Can Gain from Professional Training

Professional training is just as important for business owners as it is for staff. chief executives can learn how to boost their companies a little better and they can find out what is working and not working in the industry. They can listen to stories about how markets are responding to certain strategies. The overall goal of professional training is to help you as the business owner grow and get better by learning from a community of peers. Professional training teaches us how to be professional, lead a company, and network properly.

Be Professional

There were so many things I didn’t know when I landed my first office job. I knew enough to wear appropriate clothing. I covered all the right areas, I brought in a purse, refrained from personal calls, but other things I just didn’t have a knack for. I couldn’t really type. I wasn’t fast at …

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A Clear Guide to Remembering “Affect Vs. Effect”

- by Khloe Jordan

A Clear Guide to Remembering “Affect Vs. Effect”

The English language is a beautiful dialect. There are over 600,000 words in the English language, with an abundance number of literary terms. The number of words in the Oxford English Dictionary is steadily growing yearly, as a new word is added to the dictionary every two hours. The English language initially apportioned much of its grammar and cardinal vocabulary with the Dutch and German, while later acquiring words from the French and Latin. Furthermore, English is the second most spoken language following Mandarin, with a staggering 840 million people speaking English as a first or second language. Globally, English is the official language of 67 countries, as well as 27 non-sovereign entities. Statistically, 25% of the world’s population speaks at least some English, and more people worldwide have learned English as their second language than there are domestic English speakers.

As a result of the copious amounts of words, …

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