October 2017 was a busy month for the coding bootcamp industry with news about growing pains in bootcamp outcomes, mergers, acquisitions, investments, a trend towards bootcamp B2B training, and diversity initiatives. To help you out, we’ve collected all the most important news in this blog post and podcast. Plus, we added 12 new schools from around the world to the Course Report school directory! Read below or listen to our latest Coding Bootcamp News Roundup Podcast.
The Attorney General of New York announced a $375,000 settlement with Flatiron School. According to the Attorney General’s investigation, Flatiron operated without a license and didn’t “clearly and conspicuously” advertise job placement information. This was also covered by MarketWatch, ELearningInside, and NY Daily News
WeWork has acquired Flatiron School. The Next Web looked at how Flatiron School can now upskill WeWork members and use the close connection to startup companies as a way to place students in jobs. Publications like Inc, Fast Company, CNN, TechCrunch and more covered this story.
And according to TechCrunch, Holberton School has now added a few big names to their board: Docker founder Solomon Hykes, Upwork CEO Stephane Kasriel and CloudNOW CEO Jocelyn DeGance Graham. In addition, LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner is now an advisor and investor.
Strayer Education and Capella Education have announced they are going to merge in a $1.9 billion deal, to create one of the country’s largest for-profit education companies: Strategic Education Inc. Strayer owns New York Code and Design Academy, and Capella owns Hackbright Academy and DevMountain coding bootcamps, which combined now owns bootcamps in New York, San Francisco, DC, Philadelphia, Salt Lake City, Phoenix, and Dallas.
CLO Media reports on a trend of companies like General Assembly and Galvanize realizing that employers see value in retraining employees rather than recruiting, so they are ramping up their B2B ventures.
ELearningInside criticized the apparent lack of support systems at some online learning portals. They mainly talked about massive online open courses (moocs) but touched on bootcamps as well.
Atomic Object managing Partner Jonah Bailey writes that the fundamental problem with coding bootcamps is that “I don’t believe you can learn all the foundational cs concepts to become a software engineer in 12-15 weeks.”
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GreenBiz published an excerpt of #yeswecode founder Van Jones’ book “Beyond the Messy Truth” in which he discusses how Silicon Valley companies are embracing diversity, and mentions bootcamps in relation to “thinking beyond college”.
Tech.co looks at how employers are slowly getting on board with hiring people for tech jobs who don’t have degrees; and at coding bootcamps and the sorts of skills an employer should look for in a new hire instead of or as well as a degree.
Fast Company profiled a former janitor who is now a developer at MM La Fleur after attending General Assembly. The article also looks at GA’s partnership with Per Scholas.
OZY looks at the need for tech training in smaller cities, mentioning Columbus Ohio, Portland Oregon, and Wilmington Delaware as new tech hubs, all of which have coding bootcamps.
NBC news looks at the lack of Latina engineers in tech, and profiles Medalis Trelles who went to a San Francisco coding bootcamp and found the job search very tough. She recommends non traditional engineers take apprenticeships.
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