Sector Insights

HERNDON, Va. -- Strayer University, a leading postsecondary institution that serves working adults, today announced a groundbreaking new program to address the twin challenges of affordability and college completion facing higher education today. The Strayer University Graduation Fund will cover up to 25 percent of the cost of an undergraduate degree for dedicated students. Starting from day one, for every three classes a new student successfully completes, Strayer University will place one...

LENEXA, Kan. – (May 8, 2013) – Expanding its operations internationally, PlattForm, a leading provider of comprehensive marketing and enrollment-management services to colleges and universities worldwide, has acquired MJD Media Ltd, a United Kingdom-based education marketing company. The purchase allows PlattForm to offer services to MJD’s existing clients and extend its operations to include new institutions of higher education in the UK, as well as Australia, Canada,...

ATLANTA, May 8, 2013 -- Described as art and science, the nursing profession consists of dedicated people with extraordinary interests, strengths and passions. From staff nurse and educator to nurse practitioner or researcher, they serve on the frontline of healthcare in hospitals and emergency rooms, school-based clinics, physician offices and shelters, to name a few.

"Medtech College salutes nurses, especially our nurse instructors, for their contributions to the next...

For traditional college freshmen, the gap between high school and college is easy to step across -- a few months, at the most, between graduating from one institution and enrolling at another. For those institutions, though, the distance between K-12 and higher education is often more like an unbridgeable chasm.

That’s not for lack of trying. In recent years, states have created "K-16" or "P-20" councils, groups of high-level officials from both systems...

Students graduating from college this year overestimate their chances of getting well-paying, full-time jobs in their field of study, according to the results of a new survey that compared their views with those of recent graduates.

Even though most recent graduates said they would need more training to get their desired job, and nearly half of those who are unemployed said they wished they had chosen a different major to make them more employable, students graduating this year still...