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UCLA Extension and Steve Poizner (Remember Him?) Offer Online Ed

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For those whose memory is a bit shaky, Poizner was the state insurance commissioner who lost to Meg Whitman in the Republican gubernatorial primary in 2010.

UCLA Extension to offer online courses aimed at boomers (excerpt)

Walter Hamilton, LA Times, June 23, 2011

UCLA Extension… is teaming with Encore Career Institute Inc. in Los Gatos, Calif., to teach baby boomers how to reinvent themselves in today’s rapidly evolving job market… The Silicon Valley start-up will offer online coursework based on UCLA Extension classes. It will also give career assessment and job-placement assistance designed for baby boomers, who range in age from 47 to 65.

“We want to help people take advantage of where they are in life,” said the company’s chief executive, Steve Poizner, a technology entrepreneur and former California insurance commissioner. The company will offer certificate programs in expanding areas that provide the likeliest opportunities for boomers to get jobs, such as healthcare and green technology, Poizner said. Classes will begin in September 2012…

The programs, which will average about a year, will cost between $5,000 to $10,000. Encore Career Institute has raised $15 million in financing from two venture-capital firms.

Full article at http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-encore-ucla-20110623,0,2952451

Some may recall Poizner’s apparent misadventure in secondary education reported on the radio program “This American Life.” You can listen here:

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/play_full.php?play=406&act=1

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