Mark Perry: Only five of the top 30 occupations expected to create the most jobs by 2020 require a college degree or more (nursing, post-secondary teachers, elementary school teachers, accountants and physicians), and ten of the fastest growing occupations don’t even require a high school diploma. Moreover, of the top nine occupations expected to create […]
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A man who, after graduating from college, was unable to find a job started his own business writing other people’s college papers. His primary marketable skill is that he can write fast. He regularly writes 30+ pages of college level writing every single day. And yes, he knows that this is cheating. How does it
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and it meets in a mall! The Bend Bulletin: has more There are no professors in Virginia Tech’s largest classroom, only a sea of computers and red plastic cups. In the Math Emporium, the computer is king, and instructors are reduced to roving guides. Lessons are self-paced, and help is delivered “on demand†in a
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MIT Technology Review: Ask Ariel Diaz why he’s taking on the college textbook industry and he’ll tell you, “Quaternions.†Quaternions are a number system used for calculating three-dimensional motion, popular in computer graphics. And Diaz needed a crash course to help him with a consulting gig after his online video platform startup, Youcastr, had failed.
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The argument over college versus no college for entrepreneurs may rage on, but at Yale students are pitching their business ideas for the chance to receive funding, according to The New Haven Register. Called “Demo Day,†the annual event has grown into a major opportunity for young Yale start-ups to find the seed money they
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FOX Small Business: Through its StartUp Academy program, Bain Capital Ventures (BCV) will recruit top-tier technical talent from programs at leading universities such as Duke, Harvard, MIT, Princeton, Stanford and the University of Waterloo and place them in engineering and product management positions at startups funded by BCV. BCV is the venture capital and growth
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60 Minutes: One of the wealthiest, best-educated American entrepreneurs, Peter Thiel, isn’t convinced college is worth the cost. With only half of recent U.S. college graduates in full-time jobs, and student loans now at $1 trillion, Thiel has come up with his own small-scale solution: pay a couple dozen of the nation’s most promising students
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NBC Connecticut: Four years of tuition at a Connecticut university’s business school? About $120,000. A chance to get it free? Priceless. The dean of the University of New Haven’s business school is issuing a challenge to its incoming freshmen: Bowl me over with your entrepreneurial idea and win free tuition for your undergraduate degree.
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There’s not much you can purchase that doesn’t come with a money back guarantee, except for a college degree. Until recently that is, when fifteen private colleges in the United States began ofering four-year degree guarantees. The Consumerist has more: Battling concerns from parents and students that they’ll toil in school for a half-decade or
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WSJ: To earn some cash during the summer of 2003, college students Nick Friedman and Omar Soliman started what they thought would be a temporary business removing old furniture and other items from people’s homes. But after a brief stint in the corporate world following graduation (Mr. Friedman from Pomona College and Mr. Soliman from
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