Adult Basic Education and GED
The Mississippi State Board for Community and Junior Colleges participates in the administering of the Adult Basic Education Program. This program is beneficial to adults because it allows them the opportunity to take a second chance at earning and education. To be competitive in today's society, one must possess basic literary competencies (i.e. areas such as math, reading, writing, communication, teamwork, and computer skills. The Adult Education Program offers assistance to adults in need of gaining these skills. In addition, the program provides adults with sufficient basic education to enable them to benefit from job training and to retain productive employment so that they might more fully enjoy the benefits and responsibilities of citizenship, and enables adults who desire, to continue their education to at least the level of completion of secondary school.
Read more about this topic: Mississippi State Board For Community And Junior Colleges, Divisions of The Mississippi State Board
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