Podcast Series: Innovations in Education

Explore the full series of eCampus News podcasts hosted by Kevin Hogan—created to keep you on the cutting edge of innovations in education.

Game-changing technology reveals student job prospects

Everything can be quantified, measured, and analyzed, and a college student’s job prospects are no different.

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Around 8.5 percent of recent college graduates are unemployed. Perhaps more troubling, 16.8 percent of new graduates are considered “underemployed” by the Economic Policy Institute, which tracks unemployment figures among various demographics. That underemployment percentage has almost doubled since 2005.

There were startling reports in early 2012 that more than half of recent graduates were either unemployed or underemployed.…Read More

Suit seeks relief for trade school students with years of debt but no career

The Wilfred Academy promised her “everything you’ll need for your beauty career.” When she enrolled, Ana Salazar, a single mother of four, then 40, believed it was a ticket out of her minimum wage job as a security guard, the New York Times reports. But 26 years later, Ms. Salazar, who is retired and lives on government assistance, still doesn’t know how to cut hair. The Wilfred branch at West 50th Street and Broadway, one in a nationwide chain of beauty schools, was shuttered before she could complete the course. The only thing she has to show for her time there is a pile of repayment requests for a federally guaranteed loan that has ballooned to more than $16,000 with interest and fees…

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