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MFIP Employment Services Manual

MFIP Employment Services Manual


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13.15 Post-Secondary Training and Education

ISSUE DATE: 09/2020

Post-secondary education is training or education provided by a private or state college or post-secondary institution that results in a degree or an industry-recognized certificate, including vocational or technical schools.


Participants interested in a post-secondary program are to be encouraged and must be allowed to pursue post-secondary education if they have been accepted to a program.

Participants must make satisfactory progress in the courses in order to continue to include these activities in their employment plan.


Two categories of post-secondary education exist in MFIP

Programs lasting 12 months or less.

Programs in this category are programs designed to be completed in 12 months or less.

  • · This category is not used for the 1st 12 months someone is in a post-secondary program designed to take longer than 12 months to complete.
  • · If the participant takes longer than 12 months to complete the program, it is still recognized as post-secondary education and training lasting 12 months or less.
  • Programs lasting 13 months or more.

  • · Programs in this category are ones designed to be completed in 13 months or more.
  • · These can include the following degrees:
  • · Associates of arts.
  • · Bachelors.
  • · Masters.
  • · Other degrees designed to be completed in no more than 4 years.
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