Why do journalists and industry leaders think that two coding bootcamps are closing? And despite these “shutdowns,” why do companies like IBM still want to hire coding bootcamp graduates? We’re covering all of the industry news from August. Plus, a $3 billion GI Bill that covers coding bootcamps for veterans, why Google and Amazon are partnering with bootcamps, and diversity initiatives. Listen to our podcast or read the full August 2017 News Roundup below.
The Iron Yard founder Peter Barth talked to The Greenville Online about why he blames politics for the school’s closure, how expensive it was to open new campuses, but that he thinks a new bootcamp will open in Greenville within 6 months.
Opinion column in Inc by Sales Source blogger Geoffrey James who heavily criticizes coding bootcamps, and compares the recent closures to the “near universal failure of for profit universities”.
An article in The Singapore New Paper focused on people switching careers through coding bootcamp to work in tech, which included interviews with two GA grads who did the WDI course at the Singapore campus.
Politico covers the passing by congress of a $3 billion expansion of the GI Bill, which aims to give veterans more flexibility to get new skills later in life through nontraditional education providers like coding bootcamps.
Ed Surge looks at the trend of nonprofit colleges opening coding bootcamps, and how that intensive style of practical instruction could be used for other subjects like healthcare, accounting or political science.
The Daily Californian looked at how UC Berkeley Extension is launching a UX/UI bootcamp starting in November in SF, and how UC Berkeley’s Extension programs are slated to help reduce the college’s campus budget deficit, including coding bootcamp programs.
Codecademy is launching mentored courses and Education Dive interviewed co-founder and CEO Zach Sims about the closure of some coding bootcamps, the future of the space, and what is happening with the new mentored courses.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that LaunchCode has been facing setbacks and is pulling out of an initiative in Rhode Island, where they received almost $500,000 in grants from the state to hold bootcamps and internships.
Journal Sentinel reports that Milwaukee bootcamp DevCodeCamp is launching a 24-week evening bootcamp on September 28 which will teach the same skills as the original 12-week full time bootcamp.
I really appreciated my conversation with Lambda School’s co-founder Austen Allred about how the school is broadening access to coding education with their new 6-month online course that includes deferred tuition until students land a job.
Imogen is a writer and content producer who loves writing about technology and education. Her background is in journalism, writing for newspapers and news websites. She grew up in England, Dubai and New Zealand, and now lives in Brooklyn, NY.
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