In early June, the media reported on a worrying new trend on the job market: employment scams. As people desperately continue to seek employment, more and more of these fake ‘employers’ try to take advantage of the job-seekers’ situations. According …
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The title of highest earning college degree goes to the College of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA. A recent survey conducted by NerdWallet examined schools to find the top 50 College Diplomas with the highest earnings. …
Let’s face it — times are changing. With the nation’s economic and technological landscapes constantly shifting, it may be in your best interest to expand your career opportunities. Despite the economic downturn, there are quite a few growing industries that …
Harvard’s Secondary School Program, or SSP, has earned criticism as of late for taking advantage of high school students’ feverish desire to attend a prestigious Ivy league college. For many, Harvard University is the pinnacle of such a college, and …
One semester into an innovative new online program at California’s San Jose State University, school administrators have decided to suspend all coursework co-created with education entrepreneur Udacity. The reason: most of the students in the trial run failed their final …
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Last week Congress moved to overhaul interest rates on federal student loans. Under a new, market-based approach, students will be charged interest based on the going rates for long-term government debt securities. The bill, which the President is expected to …
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Starting in 2014, new students who want to attend the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business in Singapore will instead have to go further north to Hong Kong. The school has announced it will relocate its elite executive MBA …
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Top tech leaders from over 40 U.S. universities and colleges recently converged on San Diego to discuss the future of new media in higher education. A key panel featured CIOs from Amherst College, Wesleyan University and Rollins College—schools that have …
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Labor experts examining the modern workplace have found that employees today are less likely to take time off than employees before the start of the 2008 recession. Despite the fact that the recession officially ended back in 2009, the unemployment …
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In a recently published report stated that the # of employees employed full-time by the American school system had grown 2.6 times as fast as student growth during the period of 1992-2009. However, the report by the Friedman Foundation for …
