While vocational education has gone through many progressions, modern educators are embracing apprenticeships as a way to combine paid on-the-job training with classroom instruction.
Texas community colleges offer more bachelor’s degrees than ever, but only 4,500 students enrolled last fall compared with 114,000 at public universities. Leaders say the programs are affordable paths to good jobs but face low awareness and lingering doubts.
There’s an assumption throughout higher education that adult learners who want to finish their degree will simply return to the institution where they stopped out. That’s actually not the case. The latest National Student Clearinghouse Research Center report on “some-college, no-credential” learners reveals that more than 60% of re-enrollees select a different institution than the […]
