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I’m often asked why there aren’t bootcamps for non-technical skills. One reason is that there is an original boot camp for soft skills called summer camp.
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The challenge with extending employer-run apprenticeships is that not everyone is Kim Kardashian. An apprenticeship requires a willing employer – exactly the sort of thing someone with 143.2M Instagram followers is positioned to arrange.
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The Progressive impulse to incorporate debt forgiveness will prove to be the end of Free College’s happy days: the moment that Free College jumped the shark.
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The sad bloom of higher education liars and con artists that has attracted the attention of the American public, isn’t anomalous, but rather systemic – what happens when high pressure marketing and “yield management” practices meet deteriorating student outcomes and enrollment.
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American employers aren’t innocent bystanders to the dumpster fire that is elite college admissions. Many of the parents caught up in Operation Varsity Blues are employers themselves, and that their lying and cheating may by a byproduct of their own flawed hiring practices.
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Our colleges and universities were once an engine of social and economic mobility. Even if the engine is sputtering or stopped, by adopting new push or pull strategies American higher education can still become a much needed engine of geographic mobility.
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Higher education has benefited greatly by maintaining that grubby, professional licensure exams are somehow separate from high-minded degree programs. But for millions of students, it’s been an epic rip-off, and going on for far too long.
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FWS provides one more example why all Title IV-eligible colleges and universities should be treated with the same level of skepticism. It’s time to regulate all institutions as though they’re for-profit, because they sure act like they are.
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Binary choices tend to be bad for the incumbent, and any referendum on King College is likely to turn out poorly. Monocultures have a tendency to spawn anticultures.
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We need to stop living in a fairy tale where all employers are likely to scale entry-level training, solve underemployment, and facilitate novel and important pathways to great careers, if only they were sufficiently enlightened.
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