Twenty-six-year-old Blisha Magar is one of 20 refugees working away in a classroom during a free computer coding boot camp called Refcode. The program, led by software engineers, teaches refugees tech ...

Tech coding boot camps typically provide a shorter route than taking full-time college courses. The average employment rate for boot camp grads at five of the biggest tech companies was around 6%. A ...

Programming boot camps seem to make an impossible claim. Instead of spending four years in university, they say, you can learn how to be a software engineer in a three-month program. On the face of it ...

It seemed like a match made in heaven. Dominican University of California needed something fresh. The college wanted to offer students a hands-on learning experience in a lucrative tech field blooming ...

However, while some large companies are catching on, boot camp grads are still more likely to be hired by startups, says April Wensel, founder of Compassionate Coding, a consultancy whose services ...

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The nonprofit tech boot camp provider Operation Spark is expanding its software training program to Atlanta to help meet local employers’ demand for career applicants with coding skills, a recent ...

On the first day of Daniel Rosenbaum’s 12-week coding course at George Washington University, the veneer of a fancy college education was on display. An associate dean visited students to welcome them ...

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Andrea Graziosi, who lives in California’s East Bay area, was one of 167 students enrolled in a Dominican University-Make School partnership when Make School closed suddenly in July 2021. Credit: ...