A rising demand for job-relevant training
As companies scramble to hire early-career workers, more people are looking to provide experiential learning.
A lost generation
The latest on the pandemic’s impact on children, higher ed’s mounting challenges, and long-term labor shortages.
Building career pipelines for homeschoolers
Plus, the boom in cannabis credentials and a new potential setback for income-share agreements.
Vanishing for-profits
As the first mega university, the University of Phoenix showed how a focus on working adults and career education could work at scale. Almost a decade ago, though, Phoenix began a long slide. The university’s enrollment last year of 84,000 was roughly one-fifth of its peak.
What value do workers get with manufacturing credentials?
There's good news and bad news in the results of a five-year effort to study outcomes.
Bootcamps grow up
The sector is expanding rapidly. Amid a boom in offerings by ed-tech companies, several freestanding bootcamps are seeking accreditation, a key step toward being able to accept federal student aid.
A college-wide approach to accelerating student careers
Spelman College and the nonprofit Braven announced a new partnership that will allow every Spelman sophomore to participate in a project focused on excelling after college.
Microsoft’s and Google’s deepening ties with community colleges
Big tech companies announced new collaborations with community colleges and other open-access institutions in the past week—and the companies increasingly are putting real money and support behind those partnerships.
A 50-year storm
Perhaps students will return to community colleges when things settle down. But if preliminary fall enrollment numbers hold up, the sector would be down 14 percent over two years—the largest collapse in a half century.
Skepticism about companies’ college benefits
Do they pay off for employees? And how many people will they help?