Education and testing organization ACT recently launched its first annual College and Career Readiness Program, an awards program that recognizes individual or organizational efforts to help students prepare for their …
Legislation to streamline employment and job-training programs won passage in the U.S. House of Representatives on March 15, bringing the Supporting Knowledge and Investing in Lifelong Skills (SKILLS) Act one …
The Pew Research Center’s State of the News Media 2013 has some bright spots for the newspaper industry after years of gloomy reports from that sector. For the first time …
After years of pessimism about job opportunities, college students have cause for hope, says Phil Gardner, director of the Collegiate Employment Research Institute at Michigan State University. Employers are ramping …
Digital Book World, an online networking and education platform for publishing professionals, has now launched Digital Book World University (DBW U) to provide resources and training for the digital publishing …
Harvard Business School (HBS) recently announced it will soon offer an executive education class meant to help human resources executives attract, train and keep top talent. General managers, human resources …
ThreatMetrix, a provider of integrated cyber-crime prevention products, won the Bronze award for Most Innovative Security Product of the Year at the 2013 Global Excellence Awards. The honors, which are …
As law school graduates face poor employment prospects, many would-be legal clients struggle to afford a lawyer. To alleviate both problems at once, some law schools are trying to bring …
Talend, an open-source integration specialist, conducted a survey called How Big Is Big Data Adoption? to study the current usage of large data sets in the business world. The study …
New company Lumen Learning is aiming to teach educational institutions how to use open education resources (OER) in place of traditional textbooks, according to co-founder David Wiley. “OER represent huge …