[Kyobanim]

I don't normally post here but I do have a little insight on the educational side of this.

Having worked at a community college for a while now with a fairly large nursing/paramedic/emt program here's an observation to consider. Colleges are in business to make money. Not nesessarily a large profit, but money to increase their degree offerings and to have to offer to those who they consider good teachers and staff they'd like to have and other things. It's a prestige thing. Go figure.

If a program doesn't make a certain amount of money they will drop like a hot potato. I've sat in on a few meetings where this has come up and it's not a pretty sight. What one college in a part of the country doesn't allow, one in another part might. If the colleges around you don't accept your training try checking in other areas

At my school they are always fiddling with requirements for the medical arts. Right now they are looking at relaxing or changing some of the requirements because we're bringing 2 new buildings on line just for the medical arts. That will give us 4 medical related buildings. They will be making it more attractive to prospective sturdents to get them to sign up and fill those classes. Once they fill up the requirements will change again. That's the nature of the beast.