Life & Career Development Skills
In the last six years the number of students graduating from coding bootcamps has reportedly increased 11-fold, to an estimated 23,043 in 2019. Encouragingly, some of these programs aim to bring more women, minorities,...
Last quarter, online program management company 2U shocked investors with worse than expected losses and, going forward, lower average program enrollment for some of its largest online graduate programs. Now, 2U has beaten expectations...
A switch in distributors for Chegg’s legacy textbook sales and rentals business reflects, in a way, how the more things change, the more they stay the same. Back in 2014, more competition from Amazon...
Tess Michaels saw a need for new ways to pay for college while a graduate student at Harvard University. She and her peers would talk about how higher education proved more of a risk...
Liberal-arts colleges have long told students that they can major in whatever they want and still go on to a solid, and even lucrative, profession. After all, plenty of English majors become lawyers and...
Chegg, a Santa Clara, Calif.-based publicly traded student services company, plans to buy Thinkful, a Brooklyn-based online coding bootcamp. The acquisition will cost Chegg about $80 million in cash for Thinkful, with possible additional...
The short answer: Not much. On Wednesday, WeWork (formally called The We Co.) filed long-anticipated financial documents with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to prepare to go public. Most of the details focus...
