Every university has a unique approach to education. Two-year colleges emphasize technical skills so that you can get a job tomorrow. Research universities, well, they do research.  Hello, my people, my name is Meacham. Today we're talking about liberal arts colleges on the Score Channel. What are they and should you consider going to one? Let's find out. There are over 200 liberal arts colleges in the United States alone and they're kind of in their own category. If you go to US news or niche to check out the rankings, you'll see that universities are separate from liberal arts colleges. Why do they need their own designation? Liberal arts colleges do things a little bit differently from a lot of other traditional universities. So let's break it down by taking a look at the name. Liberal Arts Colleges. The liberal part of the name has nothing to do with politics. It's strictly because the education is liberal in the sense that it is characterized by liberty. The liberty for you to explore a lot of different topics and the liberty of the programs themselves. You get a very broad education in a liberal arts curriculum. What exactly does this broad liberal curriculum cover? Liberal arts curriculums are divided into four key areas which are natural sciences, social sciences, the arts and humanities. Natural science, of course, will teach you things like biology and physics. Social sciences will look at human behavior and try to quantify it through classes like economics or linguistics. While humanities will take a more analytical approach to human behavior, you'll see things like philosophy and history in your humanities classes. When we talk about the arts, we're not really talking about making art. For the most part, you will be studying art. So taking a look at classic literature, learning about art history and really the role of art in the human experience. Not so much producing art as you would in a fine arts program. The idea of the liberal arts curriculum is that instead of getting a whole bunch of classes focused on one area, you're going to get a lot of general knowledge and more importantly, skills that will help you to develop later in life. Things like being able to learn independently and also having the ability to use different items from different disciplines. That interdisciplinary approach to learning is a cornerstone of liberal arts colleges. All of these skills that you get at a liberal arts college should prepare you for future studies or for insertion into the workplace. And speaking of future studies, it's important to point out that most liberal arts colleges do not have postgraduate schools. The majority of them are only for undergraduate students and that has a fundamental difference in terms of how the classes work and what the faculty does. At a typical research university, your most senior tenured professors are going to spend more of their time doing research. But at a liberal arts college, the professors are more focused on teaching. Since there aren't a lot or any postgraduate students, there's really nobody to help with research. These colleges tend to do less research but instead focus more on each individual present. Liberal arts colleges are also characterized by their low student to faculty ratio which means that your teachers will get to know you. This is something that was pointed out by Alexander Green when we interviewed him for Hillsdale College. Now we've talked about the liberal arts but what about the college part? In the United States, typically the word college in university are almost interchangeable. They're basically synonyms. Americans, when they graduate from high school, they say they're going to college and for the most part, there's really no difference. However, in practice, there are some subtle things. Colleges tend to be smaller. A university like Boston University has about 30,000 students but if you look at Boston College, the enrollment is about half of that. So when we see the term college, we should understand that it's probably going to be a small to mid-sized school and that's very true of liberal arts colleges. They tend to be in just a few thousands. They also tend to be located in smaller towns outside of big cities, although there are some exceptions. For some students, this can be a deal breaker. Maybe you really want to experience the big city life and also the big campus life and go to a football game at the big house with over 100,000 people. But at the same time, there's going to be plenty of events for you to do on these small campuses. You're still going to have opportunities to participate in sports or community-based events or different student-led organizations. Small campuses don't have less things to do. They just do them with fewer people. Of course, there are certain things that a big university could offer that maybe a smaller college cannot. For example, if you're really interested in doing a lot of research, you're not going to find those opportunities like we've already explained. If you're looking to work in more sophisticated facilities like laboratories, you might benefit from going to a bigger university. And of course, if you're looking for business partnerships to do co-op or get work experience while you're in college, it naturally makes sense to go to a big university that will have more connections. But there are benefits that you can get from a small college town that you just can't get anywhere else. And I'd like to point out a couple of those things. As someone who grew up in smaller towns and suburbs, I know this for a fact. There is a much greater sense of community at a smaller school. Not only because the community around the school is generally kind of small, which means you're going to get to know everybody in town from the people at the gas station to the people at the local 7-Eleven. But you're also going to get to know your students and faculty better. You're going to see the same people day in and day out. That brings closer connections. So what is the goal of a liberal arts education and how does it help you? Nancy Thomas, the director for the Institute for Democracy and Higher Education at Tufts University, has talked a lot about the liberal arts curriculum and what it means for students. The six goals that she identified for a liberal arts curriculum are to enable students to use knowledge wisely, think creatively, learn independently, make balanced choices, exercise judgment. That kind of seems like the same as the last one. And apply all these skills for the common good. If you take a look at those items, few of them are really academic. In fact, most of them have to do with you and your ability to handle yourself as a person. Liberal arts colleges very much focus on holistic development of each student and really want you to be more prepared to do bigger and better things after you graduate. The liberal arts education is kind of divisive. Some people think it is the greatest way to learn.  It's funny because when I look back at my young days, I used to hate classes in school that I thought I would never use. If I didn't see a practical application for a specific course, I pretty much gave minimal effort. Young me probably would have hated a liberal arts education because I would have been studying all these subjects that I didn't see as necessary and I probably wouldn't have appreciated it much back then. As an adult, though, I think I would appreciate this now. There's something to be said about getting skills from a variety of different subject areas and being able to combine those to create new ideas and to use your creativity in ways that can solve modern problems. Major education reform leaders like Ken Robinson are all in agreement that we need to learn more interdisciplinary skills because the world that we're facing is constantly changing. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. Next week, there's gonna be a new problem that nobody has ever heard of and we're gonna need to combine a variety of different skills and knowledge sets in order to solve that problem. We have to go from what is essentially an industrial model of education, a manufacturing model, which is based on linearity and conformity and batching people. If everybody is a specialist, it's gonna be very hard for somebody to see the connections between those different areas and that is really what a liberal arts education is all about. It's about customizing them to your circumstances and personalizing education to people you're actually teaching. Being able to understand more than just your subject area so that you can take advantage of other people's specialized skills and I personally think that's a great thing. At the same time, I understand that a person who wants to major in engineering probably doesn't wanna sit there and take a bunch of philosophy and classic literature classes and that's okay. There are universities that have the programs that you're looking for. But if you're a student who maybe hasn't figured out what they wanna study yet or you're someone who still needs a lot of support with their learning, maybe you're not the most independent learner, a liberal arts college could actually be a great place for you. I see it as a really good stepping stone towards a master's degree so that you can specialize in the career of your choice.  When you go to a big university, you're kind of on an island by yourself. So all that is to say that a liberal arts college definitely isn't for everyone but it could be a good fit for you. And if you're interested in learning more about those, subscribe to the channel because we're trying to schedule some university visits so that we can check out more liberal arts colleges and really show you what it's like at these very small schools. Also, check out our video that we did about Hillsdale College. That was the first liberal arts college that we covered and we're planning on doing a lot more. So stick around because you don't wanna miss those and I'll see you next week.


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We have to look into another question at the year end a limited year and is 31st March 2020 You know these year ends are reporting a period reporting day. So it can be 30th, June it can be 31st 30th September it can be 31st December. So they held 60,000 shares in a listed company Z A limited company has 60,000 shares available. These shares were purchased on February 11th at a price of 850 per share But there is a share of 10 rupees. If its price is 8.50 per share in the market then you will buy it at 8.50 per share The market value of the shares on 31st March was increased to 8.75 because it fluctuates daily. In fact, it fluctuates many times in the heart So there is no way that if you spend 10 rupees today in 8.50 per share then it will increase or you never know. It goes up and down The investment is categorized as held for trading. Again held for trading. You have bought it for trading Now show the entries required both the initial recognition of the investments and subsequent re-measurement on 31st March 2020 Initially when you have bought it then how many of them you have to record and end of the year Now you have not sold these shares to yourself. So how do you record them? When you have bought it then look at the entry. Held for trading investment. Clearly we have to tell that the investments we have shared. You can use the simple word investments. It is okay But clearly in this you have to tell that you have bought it for trading purpose so that you can sell it later on So as per the 60,000 share 8.50 per share you have debit the investment and credit the cash Now in the end of March its value is 8.75 per share. The increase of 25 paise you will debit the investments and credit the gain on investments If this would have been less then investments would have been credited and loss would have been debit. You got my point As much as the increase will happen then the investment will be debit and your gain will be credited But if it is less then you can also have loss and this happens normally So make sure that the gain is credited and if the gain is lost then debit the loss The gain should be represented in the income statement. Similarly if there is a loss that will be reported in the income statement as well Now the help for sale investment will be shown in statement of financial position at a fair value of 511,500 If you multiply 60,000 by 8.75 then this figure will come And if you add 1,500 in 510 then this will be 511,000 So the gain clearly that the change will come in your investments and the change will come through profit and loss account And in the financial position your figure will be the new figure in which you have adjusted the price Thank you very much


oh shit all right guys rotate device just did told me to rotate my device sorry guys I don't know what the hell's going on here anyway morning everybody made it I just get it I just I did get a couple hours sleep I'm outside now I'm gonna show you what's happening out here so get you spun around here all right we're in the front yard there's the boat this is like where we was standing at last night when I was trying to get some video for y'all still breezy but we made it her poor truck there she is good morning you're live this thing keeps telling me to rotate my device but so I don't know if it's good or not so here's a tree limb fell out of this tree here left there stuff down stuff down in the neighbor's yard not much but the road this is where I was telling you I walked out last night right up to the top of that and man it just hammered me so we do have we do have some stuff down but nothing major it's like a tree broke off over there why I can't I can only go so far away from Wi-Fi she's telling me to walk up the street there's supposed to be a big tree down but everyone out back here see this tree here was one of my main concerns because we was looking at it a few weeks ago look at this can you see that and it freakin survive this was one that I was really concerned about this is going over into the neighbor's yard here went over there a lot of stuff down here I got to get out here and get this boat pumped out of course it won't hurt anything but don't want to leave the water in there like that but as you can see yeah I'm standing here pumping it out last night when this fell so as you can see I was only just a few feet away from it I mean what a mess today cleared the trees out I can't go too far because I'm on Wi-Fi from the house so there's some tree branches right there at the back door tractor survived tree limbs down here a couple tree limbs there let's check the roof all right see what we got up there and roof amazing incredible not one shingle pulled up freakin awesome all right all in all happy man we made it we're good but as you can see I don't know if you can see still windy we're still getting some guss but the rain has calmed down but it's gonna be like yesterday and tomorrow I guess you know kind of just breezy windy rainy we may take a ride up the road here shortly and my fire keeps going out on my cigarette and kind of maybe get some footage for you guys I hope this is okay because it's saying rotate device when I that's what it wants me to do but I don't want to do that like it like that but I don't know I don't know if it's right but anyway I'm gonna get back with you guys I want to let you know we made it so we just got some cleanup there's the leaves palm from the palm tree so guys I can't tell you enough how much I appreciate everyone comment for your prayers your thoughts guys are great man we love y'all thanks for being here with us kind of you know even if you weren't physically you were here and here and it helped it helped us and again we do appreciate it and we appreciate everyone that comments guys were great helped us through it man you know we had to ride this out we really had no choice so I think we're gonna I'm gonna try get this truck out of here and we're gonna go take a ride up the street maybe get some footage for you guys and upload it here a little bit so I'll give you another update here after a while let you know how everything's doing we're still off the grid we have no no power but that's okay I still got the inverter and everything so again thanks everyone appreciate it y'all are great people driving past and waving so all right guys hey listen she bear I'm gone for now I'll chat at you soon thanks again


Hello everyone. Welcome to another IR capsule for the Shankar IAS Academy. Today our topic is the UK elections. Today you must have heard the shocking news this morning that the second debate between the two candidates that is Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss was interrupted by a medical emergency in the team. One of the reporters fell unconscious while the debate was in progress and therefore tried to be abandoned. So we do not know when the next debate is. So we only have the first debate and the second debate part of it to be analyzed. I'm sure you all know follow the sequence of events in the UK. Mr Johnson resigned basically because the Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak resigned from the cabinet and several other cabinet members also resigned and it was difficult for Boris Johnson to continue as Prime Minister and therefore he resigned but he announced that he'll continue till a new Prime Minister is elected. That would be take a little long time because it is unexpected. There's a midterm elections unexpected. So the first process was to select two candidates from several who appeared in the first instance and the members of parliament of the Conservative Party. The Conservative Party is the ruling party and Johnson's party and so for two more years the power will be for the Conservatives of the Tories as they are known and the Labour is waiting after two years to contest elections and beat the Conservative Party. Anyway so the first was that that the members of parliament who belong to the Conservative Party voted on about six or seven candidates and the last two emerge. One was originally the Chancellor of the Exchequer or the Finance Minister Rishi Sunak who is of Indian origin. Everybody knows that he is the son-in-law of Mr Narayana Murthy. He was the front runner and the current Foreign Minister because he has not resigned and therefore she is still Foreign Minister while Sunak is the former Finance Minister and Liz Truss who is presently the Foreign Minister were the front runners and Sunak had a fairly good lead and that took them to the first BBC debate which took place a few days ago. After every debate like this public debate there will always be a snap poll and the snap poll it was found that there were neck and neck 39 and 38. It cannot be closer than that and so it was a bit indecisive. Anyway the debate doesn't take positions after all these debates they have to go to the 160,000 leading members of the Conservative Party who will elect a leader and he will be the Prime Minister. So now we are in the run-up to the election of the Prime Minister by the Conservative Party members. Those who elected these two people were the Conservative Party members of the Parliament. So they chose the front runners and now 160,000 people will vote sometime in August and the results will be announced on September 5th and the new Prime Minister will take over on September 6th. So there is considerable excitement and tension about this not only in UK but also in India because one of the leading candidates happens to be of Indian origin and this is the first development of this kind of an Indian origin person becoming so close to be the Prime Minister of the UK. So first we have to examine what their platforms are, what are they planning to do and what are their programs. They belong to the same party so programs have to be close to each other but since they are contesting against each other each will try to show that he or she is a better Conservative than the other and therefore this debate was concentrated on that and there are several issues starting from economic issues which are always crucial because Europe is infirm and Europe is in a complete disarray. There is no leadership in Europe anymore because Angela Merkel is gone, her successor is new, President Macron has lost his majority in Parliament, Boris Johnson has left. Then who is there to lead the European Union or Europe itself because UK is not in the European Union. So at a time when there is a crisis, a war in Ukraine in which NATO and the European Union are involved morally if not physically, at that time it's very crucial to have a able Prime Minister. So the first question that they debated was about their prospective capability and also their agenda as far as the economic policies concerned. So in that they both have more or less the same ideas but Sunak believes that he has to tax the bigger companies that is one of his platforms but Liz Truss opposes it. She thinks that if this is done then the lower the companies will become more attractive but they will become less competitive. The bigger companies will not be able to compete in the world market. So there is a difference of opinion on this. Who should be given tax cuts to whom? So Sunak's point is that if you give it to the bigger companies that will encourage the smaller companies also and the production will increase but Liz does not believe in that. That is one issue. The second issue is China. Both are of course opposed to China. Both of them believe that China is the biggest threat to the United Kingdom and the world and therefore each of them has a plan to deal with China and there are several of them and one of the things that Sunak has announced just to embarrass his opponent that he is going to close down the so-called Confucius Institutes. No Confucius Institutes are kind of cultural centers established by China in many parts of the world including India. They start by teaching Chinese language and then they go on to teach culture about Confucius theories and basically doing some kind of brainwashing of foreigners and of course it is also an opportunity for us to understand them what their methodology is, the languages etc. So we also have some Confucius centers institutes but Sunak says that he is going to close them down and one of the points he made was that actually these were established at a time when Liz Truss was the Education Minister. So he's blaming her for having allowed Confucius Institutions to be set up.  The third issue is of course how to deal with Putin because that is what the biggest crisis that is facing Europe at this moment and then of course the pandemic what is the position of the pandemic, how much has Sunak done as Finance Minister to deal with the pandemic, how much has Liz Truss has done in order to give the right message to the world in which of course she failed because UK was one of the countries which was worst affected by the pandemic. So there each one will say we did what is possible. And then there was this funny issue of clothing of Rishi Sunak. There have been several videos etc saying that this man is spending a lot of money on his clothes as you know he's very rich man, he's a millionaire himself and his wife is supposed to be a billionaire daughter of Sri Murthy. So there were some stories that she's not paying taxes, she's keeping her money outside UK and Finance Minister's wife doing a kind of like this thing. There are some lot of hate mail and hate TV videos etc were in circulation and the clothes story is that somebody said that he's spending too much on his clothes and this is not in the tradition of Prime Ministers and then somebody said that but look Liz Truss, her jewelry are bought on the streets of London while the Rishi Sunak suits are made in several row, the most expensive suits in the world. But Liz Truss did not walk into this trap so she immediately said well I respect Mr. Sunak's taste, design her clothes and so on is a well-dressed man. So she did not get dragged into you know how cheap her earrings are. You know such things happen in debates of this kind. Do you remember at one time an Angela Merkel was accused of using unfashionable clothes because she was from East Germany from a workers' background and all her life even as Chancellor for many years she did not wear very stylish clothes and Angela Merkel said well I'm only the Chancellor of the country and not a fashion model she said. So there are so many different approaches to this. So from economic policy to the address of the candidates came up in the first debate but at the end of the debate they were very close and therefore there is no guarantee as to who will win the final election in August and become Prime Minister in September. So there are lots of difference individually though they belong to the same political party and they may have perhaps serve in the same cabinet in the future. It's quite possible that whoever wins may invite the other to join the cabinet but they are from the same party but it's surprising that they have so many difference of opinion about various things even though they belong to the same party. One of the conservative party leaders of the same party criticized both of them. They said that if they become they come to power either of them you had no particular choice and he said that this is very pure oil very childish kind of election campaign and if they do this we will lose the election later it's an embarrassing campaign and you know what he meant by it. He called it very childish and we have to raise the standards that is the advice of a conservative party and as far as the Labour Party is concerned they said they are very happy that these two either of them becoming prime ministers is good for the Labour Party because they can win the next elections. So as I said both were guts to be on equal footing and from taxation to those everything was discussed and then came the second debate that is where this calamity occurred while they were debating one of the commentators, analysts, well-known person she just collapsed while this class was speaking and there was a big noise and she immediately rushed to that person and she was recovering but they decided not to continue the debate so another debate will come we don't know exactly when and the second debate the China issue became very contentious because each one accused the other of being soft to the Chinese and also to point out who is more against the Chinese than the other so that they were vying with each other to be inimical to China and the both of them agreed that the biggest threat to the UK in the future is going to be China. It's not clear how much Sunat will push his four policy proposals he has made four point proposals about China. First I already mentioned to you to close what Confucius institutes in the UK then to build stronger diplomatic security alliance against China to use MI5 to help British business cooperation and to examine the ease of banning Chinese acquisitions or key British firms including strategically sensitive tech firms. So these are the four things that he wants to do. Tresverson was less firm in acknowledging the threat. She was not less firm. She also stressed the threat from China but she appeared defensive because of her past report so she had to repeatedly say that I am also against China and as Prime Minister I will take action. Then the debate on their stand would be on Vladimir Putin if he turned off the gas supply to Europe which is a big risk. Rishi Sunat said that a year and a half ago he oversaw that the biggest armed forces uplifts at the end of the Cold War. So what he was saying was that the British army is quite capable of meeting any threat from Putin and he said I also worked with all my finance ministers to put in place a sanctions package the likes of which we have never seen. This we know NATO and the US has imposed very strong sanctions against Russia and he said that he will continue that. It requires toughness to stand up to him and it does require all of us to go through difficult times. Part of us standing up to Putin is realizing as a country what is that going to do to our energy bills and having the results to get through that. There's a lot of different ways we can stand up to him but certainly we must stand up and I will do that UK will do that under my leadership. Because Sunat said that Sunat's economic policy is wrong to which he said I think it is fair to ask the largest companies to pay more because my plans only apply to the largest companies. For smaller companies nothing is going to change. They are getting help to employ staff. They are getting tax cuts from that. President the price of food is a huge issue and this is a global crisis. We know it is being exacerbated by the crisis in Ukraine. Fertilizer is more expensive. Grain is more expensive. Feeding through to the cost farmers are having to pay and one thing I would use to reduce the red tape. It's also important we are resilient and we have a good food supply in the face of these global shocks and we are not solely dependent particularly on countries we can't trust. So then we use basically the tax cuts. He is for tax increase while she is in favor of not increasing the tax. And as for loyalty to Johnson, Sunat is far behind trust because it was his resignation which triggered Johnson's resignation. Trust continued to be the caretaker foreign secretary in Johnson's team and may even include Johnson in her cabinet if he wants to become a minister after the elections. He has been saying that he will become a Tory backpensher and he referred to the job of the Prime Minister as the best job in the world. So now he didn't want any other job he said but now there are reports that he is going to become the Secretary General of NATO which is a very good position. So there will be many more debates and interviews to come and these issues will come in different forms depending on the audience. They are going to travel to different parts of the UK and therefore stress the issues which are most prominent in those spots. But behind this particular election, there's the point that we must note as Indians, race may be an important factor no one wants to discuss. Nobody wants to raise this issue. Would you accept a non-European to be the Prime Minister of UK? Everybody is whispering but nobody is speaking out openly on that. But many people believe that behind this election there may be a factor of race and no one wants to discuss it in many ways. Sunak is British, may be more British than some others but his colour may well become a factor against him. This is because if Sunak becomes the Prime Minister it will be a big shift in UK politics as he'll be the first Prime Minister of Indian Oralism. Since the race is very close, this is the other race, the running election is very close. We do not know when the people will focus on this issue particularly in India are holding our breath. We also are not discussing it. We are not pretending as though we are not interested in this issue but I'm sure everybody is whispering to each other whether this will come true or not. But I presume that they are mature enough to touch these people as to who is best for them and they will not go on the basis of race. But you never know and anything can happen between now. So this is the position of UK elections and please follow it because in your examination naturally all these questions will arise of the UK politics which is very important. We should always be very skeptical about integrity of politicians whether they are in India or elsewhere because they operate in a different kind of circumstances. It's a matter of survival for them. For those of us who are outside politics watching it, it may look very silly and it may look very rational for some of them to behave like that. But there are of course very many politicians everywhere in the world including India who are considered very principled. Their integrity is assured and so on. But then they are criticized them because their integrity is so good they will not be of any use to us. If he is a friend of yours and if he doesn't talk to you for fear that he'll be accused of corruption then what is the use of having a friend? You know such questions are raised. So in the case of the you know the resignation of about 22 ministers there was a clear reason for it because Mr Johnson was behaving in a very strange manner in his personal life. Very many things I don't need to mention all this year which are scandalous and this was getting too much and Rishi Sunak felt that it doesn't matter even if the government falls he would resign and when he resigned 22 ministers resigned. That is very significant and that is why probably you thought that was a very principled move. Well it looked like a principled move at that time but now that when we see that among the conservative party itself there are so many differences of opinion. Presibly there was a gain behind us. Somebody was inspiring to change the government of State Johnson and to become Prime Minister it's quite possible. So there may be other factors and the first race factor came only later because nobody knew that someone of Indian origin will come up as a contender even though they had a good record and everything. So that's a new factor which may influence it but on the whole it's a very there cannot be a stronger democracy than UK even though they don't have a written constitution. So very strong democracy and what happens in UK gets reflected in other parts of the world. So in that sense they always stay with the constitution. They go through the proper procedures and they will elect the leader of the conservative party of the next prime minister for two years and the two-year term that four-year term is over then there'll be a new election and there is no guarantee that conservatives will come back or maybe a change. So you never know what the motives were but as long as the procedures are followed and the constitution is followed nobody can complain. Thank you very much.