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Hack Education Weekly News

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“ Purdue-Kaplan online university one step closer to reality,” the Journal & Courier reports. ” Via Techcrunch : “ Sony wants to digitize education records using the blockchain.” Via The New York Times : “$78,000 of Debt for a Harvard Theater Degree.” Via The New York Times : “U.S.

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'Robots Are Coming For Your Jobs'

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Both had been acquired by for-profit college companies, a convenient target – no surprise – for entrepreneurial blame at the bootcamps’ failures: Dev Bootcamp was bought in 2014 by Kaplan Inc and Iron Yard was acquired in 2015 by the Apollo Education Group, the parent company of the University of Phoenix.