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usnews | November 22, 2017

High school juniors and seniors considering college options may concentrate on institutions' course offerings, location and price – not a school's cohort default rate. But overlooking the CDR is a mistake. Prospective college students rarely consider what will happen to their student loans if they can't complete their education or find a job after graduation. This may not seem like a problem before you've chosen a college, never mind borrowed student loans....

PRWeb | January 16, 2020

A group of Florida Polytechnic University students has found work with a great company that offers hands-on experience, flexible hours, fun co-workers, and the kind of boss most people only dream of – themselves. Madd Technologies LLC, which stemmed from an idea friends had late one night, is a technology start-up helmed by Florida Poly students and focused on the consumer electronics and computer software markets. It provides services such as product design, website design, computer-aided...

educationdive | January 16, 2018

After recent surveys showed parents held negative views about blue-collar work, manufacturers are holding with parent’s night events at high schools, hoping the outreach to the parents will help them win over a younger generation of potential workers, reports the Wall Street Journal. There are more than 400,000 unfilled positions in the sector. Low unemployment combined with anxieties about the manufacturing have contributed to a shortage. Industry experts say blue-collar jobs...

educationdive | January 15, 2020

Individuals with bachelor's degrees will earn $400,000 more in their lifetimes than those with just a high school diploma, according to a new report from the College Board. College graduates who enrolled at age 18 and earned a degree in four years "can expect to earn enough relative to a high school graduate" by age 33 to make up for paying tuition and other costs and for being out of the workforce while in college, the report notes. The study comes as polls show some Americans are...