Episode 12: March 2017 Coding Bootcamp News Roundup + Podcast
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By Imogen Crispe
Last Updated July 21, 2017
Haven’t had time to keep up with all the coding bootcamp news this March? Not to worry– we’ve compiled it for you in a handy blog post and podcast. This month, we read a lot about CIRR and student outcomes reporting, we heard from reporters and coding bootcamp students about getting hired after coding bootcamp, a number of schools announced exciting diversity initiatives, and we added a handful of new schools to the Course Report school directory! Read below or listen to our latest Coding Bootcamp News Roundup Podcast.
CIRR + Student Outcomes
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CIRR (Council on Integrity in Results Reporting) has officially launched and there has a been a lot of press about it from Tech Crunch, Wall St Journal, Chicago Tribune and more.
It’s a coalition of schools that have announced their commitment to publish student graduation and job placement data in a single, standardized framework.
CIO Dive writes about the changing tech workforce, the need for coders outside of tech hubs, and how, thanks to coding bootcamps, technology worker stereotypes may soon become less accurate.
A USA Today article digs into the fact that Trump is focusing on creating new jobs, by bringing back coal etc, despite the thousands of unfilled jobs in the tech sector. The article says there are 500,000 open computing jobs nationwide, with only 43,000 CS majors graduating per year.
In February we talked about this Wired article about coding being the new “blue collar” job and how folks in towns hit by deindustrialization can potentially be retrained. In March the Sydney Morning Herald did a follow up saying that the same principle applies in Australia - loss of manufacturing/mining jobs means people out of work could be trained to be coders.
A new Howard University campus is opening at Google’s Mountain View headquarters as part of an initiative to encourage black and Latinx students to consider coding as a career. The campus will offer a 12-week program to Howard juniors and seniors who are majoring in CS. The program will be taught by Google engineers and Howard faculty staff and cover the latest advancements in technology
A Guardian reporter explores the theory that by occupying certain tech roles, women are devaluing them. Miriam Posner talks about the hierarchy between front-end and back-end roles and how women are typecast as front end developers.
The Last Mile, a coding bootcamp inside San Quentin Prison in San Francisco, graduated its third cohort in March. 18 prisoners graduated from the three tracks the program offers, including Thomas Winfrey who studied two tracks simultaneously. (via Tech Crunch)
Business Insider covered Swedish startup Tjejer Kodar which offers week-long coding trips abroad for women. Founded by Hanna Petterson in 2015, ladies go to places like Barcelona and Berlin to learn how to code and visit local tech companies.
A new tech training center has opened in Milwaukee, Wisconsin to offer intensive 10-week coding courses through Employ Milwaukee's new TechHire IT training program.
The Iron Yard is closing its San Antonio Location. The last cohort graduated on Feb 24. The school recently announced it has reduced the number of campuses from 20 to 15, including Minneapolis-St Paul, Minnesota; Columbia, South Carolina, and Cincinnati, Ohio. (via TPR)
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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