The vast opportunities for young learners nowadays

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    Currently, young learners have extensive opportunities to gain some hard and soft skills in the activities provided through courses, internships, volunteer, and scholarships to learn plenty of knowledge from another city. Moreover, the learners should not consider paying money for those activities since governments, many platforms, and plentiful organizations provide the activities for free. Let us begin with the courses from the website that we can seek on the online platform. 

  According to Rosilawati (2021), many platforms allow learners to achieve their goals of getting soft skills through IndonesiaX, Coursera, Google Digital Garage, EdX, and LinkedIn Learning. Those platforms have their own interest in learning and different subjects in learning, based on what the learner wants to focus on. This is the new era of the internet. The learner could seek more knowledge through the internet. 

  Let us move on to the internship that milling about in social media. For instance, MSIB is a certified internship and independent study program that will improve the experience of learners in the workplace. This program is located for students who school in the university, minimum the students who exist in 3rd semester for D2, 4th semester for D3, and 5th semester for D4 - S1 (Kampus Merdeka). This program is made by kampus merdeka which is the government's program. Moreover, as a learner, you can see a lot of information from social media containing international internships in Japan, Malaysia, Canada, etc. You can see the username from Irstudents on Instagram.

 The volunteer is the next topic we will discuss about. Volunteering is an excellent approach to obtaining work experience since you will thoroughly understand how a firm, charity, or organization operates while developing teamwork skills and exhibiting a proactive and dedicated attitude (British Council). The other benefit of joining a volunteer is to explore other cities to find their culture, environments, and people. 

  The scholarships are actually one of those programs that Mumu mentioned above. However, Mumu will mention a little scholarship that most people know in this discussion. Which are the DAAD scholarship, Gates Cambridge scholarship, Fulbright program, etc. Those scholarships are fully funded, meaning the learners will not use their money for the school outside the country. 

References:

Kampus Merdeka. Syarat & Ketentuan Pendaftaran Mahasiswa Magang & Studi Independen Bersertifikat (MSIB) – Kampus Merdeka (kemdikbud.go.id).

British Council. What is volunteering? | Study UK (britishcouncil.org).

Rosilawati, E. (2021). 5 Course Online Gratis yang Bisa Dicoba Buat Ningkatin Skill, Dapat Sertifikat Lho! 5 Course Online Gratis yang Bisa Dicoba Buat Ningkatin Skill (campuspedia.id).