Tertiary Education
After completing primary education and
graduated from a secondary school or a high school, the third stage is
to go for tertiary education. Tertiary education is sometimes called
post-secondary. Students are preparing themselves to go to
institutions of higher learning, namely colleges, universities or
polytechnics.
Questions to Answer While
Preparing Child to Tertiary Education
While developing our child's education
plan, there are some important questions we need to be clarified.
How many years to go before our child
entering the tertiary level? Making this clear is important as it will
give us the idea of how much we should actually save from now. Without
knowing this, we may end up saving less than necessary. For instance,
the savings amount would be a great difference if a child is 10 years
away from entering tertiary education compare to another child who is
18 years away.
What course do we want to prepare our
child for? What is the expected cost? Different fields of study comes
with different costs. Studying professional courses like medic,
accountancy, law etc are usually far more expensive than pursuing
courses like social sciences, business admin, languages etc.
Does our child have any special
academic, athletic or artistic skills which may later lead him to a
scholarship? If the answer is yes, will it be a full or part? What
about if no? Different situations will lead to different amount of
money we need to prepare.
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