WHETHER you’re studying in Spain or in the United States or in the Philippines, you only have one goal – to learn something. Whether you’re in nursery or taking up post-graduate studies, you still have only one goal – to learn something. If you’re in Spain and you’re in high school, it is highly suggested that you need to learn another language other than the various regional dialects in Spain such as Catalan or Basque. You should need to learn Portuguese because you are neighbors with the Portuguese considering that you live in the same Iberian Peninsula.

Or you may want to learn English considering that majority of the tourists in Spain come from England. For this, there are a number of English language schools that have sprouted here in Spain. They are not just located in cities such as Madrid, Barcelona or Valencia or even in places like Benidorm, Costa del Sol and Costa Blanca, they are also located in the archipelagoes of the Balearic and the Canaries off Africa.

Or you may want to take up any of the Scandinavian languages like Danish because there are also lots of Scandinavian tourists here in Spain. If you are in the United States, there are lots of studying opportunities available for you. Once you have graduated from high school, you can apply for academic or varsity scholarships. If you are applying for academic scholarships, you must impress the college admissions staff with a heartily-made college admissions essay.

There are also scholarships available for gifted students such as violinists and ballet dancers. If you are not on scholarship, you can still avail of student loans. There are federal student loans and there are student loans provided by financial institutions such as Sallie Mae. They do provide only minimal interest plus they are payable within 30 years. That means they are giving you a chance to succeed in life before paying these loans. You can still have other means to study like being employed at a fastfood store or a convenience store or a video rentals store.

It really depends on your diligence and in your interest. If your interest is in the field of infectious diseases, then you must not think for a second if you want to accept an assignment or an internship in highly risky places such as the Amazon, Congo or the jungle communities in Malaysia. Who knows, after you’ve come back, you’ll be assigned juicy positions either at CDC in Atlanta, the United States Army Research Institute for Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) or at the WHO.

Or if you want to become a hotelier someday, then sending you to the best hotel school in Switzerland may be the only option. But then again, if your parents are not that affluent, then you can still enroll at any of the various online schools. Online schools charge only minimal tuition because they don’t have laboratory fees to contend with. Yet they are still competitive because they still employ the best professors available.

EDUCATION must begin at home wherever you are in the world. Since this blog is aimed at Spanish readers, let me beam this article to the appropriate audience. For those Spanish readers out there who understand English, let me tell you and exhort you to educate your children as early as when they begin talking. Try this out with some tips from your child’s pediatrician and child psychologist. Once he or she enters nursery, there are child psychologists at school who will assist you.

But it is more advantageous to buy your children books in English. You can also teach them English using the Internet or some soft form of learning. These can begin by introducing the appropriate English terms to certain simple objects like for instance an olive tree. An olive tree is called aceltuna in Spanish. Your child already knows the Spanish name obviously. All you need to do is teach him English.

During the first day of your child at school, make sure to pay attention to his or her actions. This can be very important as a child’s brain is the most precarious and can develop through and through if it is well-fed with relevant lessons. Make sure that you be absent from work that day for both parents. If you can afford it, then enroll your child to the best schools such as the ones using the Montessori or the Waldorf or the Jesuit system. Once your child finishes high school, he or she can enter college smoothly.

It is now time for the child to choose what program he or she would like to undertake. Never ever demand your child to take a certain program that he or she doesn’t like. Be very sensitive to this or otherwise the child cannot optimize his or her learning if she or he is forced to take up medicine or engineering perhaps. The child has his or her own talents and skills that needed to be nurtured and it is these talents that must be enhanced through tertiary education.

A child’s tertiary education preparedness starts as early as when he or she is still in junior high. Your kid must be well-prepared every time there’s a college admissions fair coming into the school. A college admissions fair usually has lots of college admissions staff participating and recruiting would-be students in their colleges. During this affair, it is imperative to impress the college visitors with your resume and college admissions essay. They will later contact you regarding your college admissions essay for possible inculcation into their enrollment system. Be sure too to know what programs are available for you in those particular colleges which are of course to your liking.

If the college is too far from you and you deem it inappropriate to be in a boarding school because of the expenses, then there are two alternatives – enrolling in a community college or in an online college. An online college is just like a correspondence institution; only emails are delivered online of course. Other schemes don’t need emails. What they need are student accounts. You need to log in to your student account to retrieve the daily lessons.