Last year, the school reported a 99 percent graduation rate based on an audit by Moody Famiglietti and Andronico, a Massachusetts-based certified public accounting firm. But nearly a year later, IBT reported, only the Flatiron School has released an audited report. In March 2015, a group of some of the most prominent coding bootcamps, including New York’s Flatiron School and San Francisco-based App Academy sent a pledge to President Obama promising to release standardized, audited reports on student outcomes each year. With a third-party auditor, you can’t really do that.”
“They’ll exclude students who they think were bad and mark them as a failed student and do all sorts of weird things that bump up their numbers and make it look better. “Oftentimes, boot camps will make these numbers up,” Jonathan Lau, co-founder of SwitchUp, an independent directory of bootcamp reviews and rankings told the International Business Times in February. The federal support comes amid long-running questions about how the coding bootcamps arrive at their job placement numbers.
The department’s program, known as Education Quality through Innovation Partnerships (EQIP), allows the programs to be audited by a third-party “Quality Assurance Entity” of their choosing, while the college's own accreditor must also approve. Last fall, the department introduced a pilot program that would allow traditional institutions – ones that partner with coding bootcamps and agree to a third party audit – to be eligible for federal financial aid. “ There is a moral problem and we must do whatever we can to open the doors to higher-ed opportunity for learners who are not adequately served,” Mr. What China is – and isn’t – learning from military drills near Taiwan He’s pitching the programs as a way to help broaden access to high-quality education for low-income and non-traditional students. The move to shutter the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools came after criticism from the US Education Department, which has noted that ACICS had repeatedly accredited schools such as the troubled Corinthian Colleges.īut coding bootcamps, which are often backed by venture capital funding, have gained a champion in Education Department Undersecretary Ted Mitchell. The bootcamp credibility debate takes place against the backdrop of a federal panel's vote to shut down the largest accreditor of for-profit colleges on Thursday. Since 2012, such bootcamps have offered hands-on, intensive technical training in as little as 12 weeks, boasting job placements as high as 98 or 99 percent once students complete the program.īut while advocates pitch them as an alternative to a traditional degree program, critics point to their high tuition - often as much as $14,000 - noting that they aren’t overseen by traditional third-party accreditors, unlike many other institutions, including for-profit colleges.
To many students and career-changers hoping to gain programming skills and break into the lucrative tech world, coding bootcamps can seem like a promising option.
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