{"id":12561,"date":"2017-08-16T19:14:50","date_gmt":"2017-08-16T19:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tayosolagbade.com\/sdnuggets\/?p=12561"},"modified":"2017-08-16T19:14:50","modified_gmt":"2017-08-16T19:14:50","slug":"recommended-the-rise-of-self-education-and-individual-investment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tayosolagbade.com\/sdnuggets\/recommended-the-rise-of-self-education-and-individual-investment\/","title":{"rendered":"[RECOMMENDED] The rise of self-education and individual investment"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><em>The message contained in the article previewed\/linked below, WILL resonate strongly with ANY person who has reflected deeply on the inadequacies of\u00a0our conventional education systems -\u00a0in meeting rapidly changing, technology driven educational needs of today's \"learners\".<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>If the society refuses to make the required changes to education that\u00a0can be had, I argue that every INDIVIDUAL can - and should! - make the changes necessary for him\/herself...and EVERY parent should do same for his\/her kids!<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h1>The rise of self-education and individual investment<\/h1>\n<p>With university tuition costs rising and a programming skill shortage, should students consider investing their time to help bridge the skill set gap?<\/p>\n<p>Formal education certainly does not come cheap -- with student fees rising and fewer university places available, but less traditional methods and a sharper focus on skill sets rather than formal qualifications could benefit job hunters more than a degree and a point score on their resume.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/the-rise-of-self-education-and-individual-investment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12562\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12562\" src=\"http:\/\/tayosolagbade.com\/sdnuggets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/self-education-close.png\" alt=\"self-education-close\" width=\"580\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tayosolagbade.com\/sdnuggets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/self-education-close.png 786w, http:\/\/tayosolagbade.com\/sdnuggets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/self-education-close-300x271.png 300w, http:\/\/tayosolagbade.com\/sdnuggets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/self-education-close-768x693.png 768w, http:\/\/tayosolagbade.com\/sdnuggets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/self-education-close-150x135.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 786px) 100vw, 786px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/the-rise-of-self-education-and-individual-investment\/\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading...<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The message contained in the article previewed\/linked below, WILL resonate strongly with ANY person who has reflected deeply on the inadequacies of\u00a0our conventional education systems -\u00a0in meeting rapidly changing, technology driven educational needs of today's \"learners\". If the society refuses to make the required changes to education that\u00a0can be had, I argue that every INDIVIDUAL [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1375,266,814,87,1440,10],"tags":[1898,3071],"class_list":["post-12561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employeescareer-persons","category-excel-vb-solutions","category-my-dn-travel-news","category-my-ideas-for-making-nigeria-better","category-parenting","category-recommended-websites-articles","category-self-development","tag-recommended","tag-the-rise-of-self-education-and-individual-investment"],"aioseo_notices":[],"views":831,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tayosolagbade.com\/sdnuggets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tayosolagbade.com\/sdnuggets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tayosolagbade.com\/sdnuggets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tayosolagbade.com\/sdnuggets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tayosolagbade.com\/sdnuggets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12561"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tayosolagbade.com\/sdnuggets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12564,"href":"http:\/\/tayosolagbade.com\/sdnuggets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12561\/revisions\/12564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tayosolagbade.com\/sdnuggets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tayosolagbade.com\/sdnuggets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tayosolagbade.com\/sdnuggets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}