Headline Jan 23, 2018/ ''' CODES & ROSES '''

''' CODES & ROSES '''

'ZILLI, EVER WONDER - this commercial simulation- as to if there is some way, that Proud Pakistan could obtain-

A few hundred thousand coding-jobs out of China?'' or say, Russia? for its students?   

'No, Zilli, doesn't know, if any such commercial simulation is in the cards or could be even dreamed up?'.  

  

WONDER IF ANYBODY KNOWS about any coding *boot-camps* in Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Indonesia? 

WONDER, TOO, if anybody or someone knows which colleges or universities in the far Asia, have the best reputations and job placement rates?

WONDER ALSO, as to which college or university in Sindh/Pakistan has the best reputation and job placement rate?  

Mr. Ali Jaffer Zaidi. Sir? Mr. Haider Naqvi? Mr. Nusrat Hussain?

WONDER AT TIMES, to ask Zilli, to get hold of Vishnu and Lakshmi, and see if they can find the same info for The World Students Society about some of their best colleges and universities in India?

COMMERCIAL SIMULATION   

The recent rise of all-encompassing Internet platforms: promised something unprecedented and invigorating : venues that unite all manners of actors-

Politicians, media, lobbyists, citizens, experts, corporations -under one roof.  

These companies promised something that no previous vision of the public sphere could offer : real,  billion-strong mass participation; a means for affinity groups to find one another and mobilize and gain visibility and influence.

This felt and functioned like freedom, but it was always a commercial simulation. Or go check Cloudflare, a web infrastructure company?

IN THE US, in the last five years, dozens of schools have popped up offering an unusual promise : Even humanities graduates can learn how to code in a few months and join the high-paying digital economy.

*STUDENTS and their very hopeful parents have shelled out as much as $26,000 seeking to jump start a career*.

But the field of so-called coding  boot camps now faces a sobering moment, as two large schools have announced plans to shut down this year, despite backing by major for-profit education companies-

Kaplan and the Apollo Education Group, the parent of the University of Phoenix.

The closings are a sign that years of growth led to a boot-camp glut, and that the field could be in the early stages of a shakeout.

''You can imagine this becoming an big industry, but not for 90 companies,'' said Michael Horn, a  principal consultant at Entangled Solutions, an education research and consulting firm. 

The demand of employers is shifting, and the schools must adapt. Many boot-camps have not evolved beyond courses in basic web development, but companies are now often looking for more advanced coding skills.

One of the casualties, Dev Bootcamp was a pioneer. It started in San Francisco in 2012 and grew to six schools with more than 3,000 graduates.

Only three years ago, Kaplan, the biggest supplier of test preparation courses, bought Dev Bootcamp and pledged bold expansion.

It is now closed.

Also, closing is the Iron Yard, a bootcamp that was founded in Greenville, S.C., in 2013 and swiftly spread to 15 campuses, from Las Vegas to Washington.

Its main backer is the Apollo Education Group. 

*SINCE 2013, the number of boot camp schools in the United States has tripled to more than 90, and the number of graduates will reach nearly 23,000 in 2017, a tenfold jump from 2013, according to  Course Report.

Tarlin Ray, who became president Dev Bootcamp in April, said in an email that the school offered   ''a high quality program'' that helped thousands of people join the high-tech economy.

''But we were simply unable to find a sustainable business model,'' he wrote.

IRON YARD echoed that theme.

In an email, Lelia King, a spokeswoman said, that while students benefited, the company ''ultimately unable to sustain our current business model.''

Boot Camp courses, aimed at adults, vary in length and cost. Some can take 26 or more, and  tuition  can reach $26,000 but the average course length is just over 14 weeks, and the average cost is $11,400, according to Course Report.

The successful school, analysts, will increasingly be ones that expand their programs to suit the changing needs of employer.

Some have literally added courses like data science, artificial intelligence, digital marketing and project management . 

Other steps include catering courses for corporations, which need to update the skills of their workers, or develop online courses. 

Ryan Craig, a managing director at University Ventures, which invests in education start-ups  including Galvanize, a large boot camp, predicted that the market would still grow.

BUT STUDENTS, he said, would become more concentrated in the schools with the best reputations and job placement rates.

The promise of boot camps is that they are on-ramp to good jobs.  

But rapid expansion into new cities can leave little time to forge ties with nearby companies, the hiring market for boot camp graduates, said Liz Eggleston, co-founder of Course report.    

The Honor and Serving of the latest Operational Research on Jobs and Markets continues.

With respectful dedication to the Leaders, Students, Professors and Teachers of the world. See Ya all  on !WOW! -the World Students Society and Twitter- !E-WOW! -the Ecosystem 2011:

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