Stories
Slash Boxes
Comments

SoylentNews is people

Coding School "The Iron Yard" Announces Closure of All Campuses

posted by Fnord666 on Friday July 21 2017, @04:26AM   Printer-friendly
from the wonder-if-they-taught-rust? dept.

McGruber writes:

The Iron Yard, a South Carolina-based coding school with 15 locations, announced that it plans to close all of its campuses. The four-old company posted a message (http://blog.theironyard.com/2017/07/20/message-iron-yard/) on its website delivering the news: "In considering the current environment, the board of The Iron Yard has made the difficult decision to cease operations at all campuses after teaching out remaining summer cohorts." The note said the company will finish out its summer classes, including career support.

Main Link: http://www.ajc.com/news/local/coding-school-giant-iron-yard-announces-closure-all-campuses/AjeD1aOnb6KUmetDFH4yaJ/

[One school with fifteen locations closing — is this an isolated problem, or just one instance of a more widespread problem? What other schools have recently closed, or are in the act of closing, in your area? --martyb]

Original Submission

 
This discussion has been archived. No new comments can be posted.
Coding School "The Iron Yard" Announces Closure of All Campuses | Log In/Create an Account | Top | 28 comments | Search Discussion
Display Options Threshold/Breakthrough Mark All as Read Mark All as Unread
The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.

  • (Score: 3, Informative) by c0lo on Friday July 21 2017, @06:52AM

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Friday July 21 2017, @06:52AM (#542249) Journal

    In Melbourne, there was a spate of 'international colleges' that were closed down back in 2009. This was mostly due to these being dodgy scam artists siphoning money out of a government fund to increase vocational education.

    Not quite. The 2009 dodgy college closure happened on the wake of GFC, which brought two things up:
    a. AUD "exploded" in value, the tuition fees here became too expensive when compared with the same in USD
    b. the govt began to dismantle the "permanent residency through study in Australia" policies, in place since Howard govt before.
    Here's a story around those times [themonthly.com.au]

    ---

    The colleges siphoning govt grants started to appear afterwards and weren't acting on the "international connection" - sometime 2012 they were already visible enough for ABC to start taking notice [abc.net.au]. In 2016, the Vic govt cracked the "bubble" [theage.com.au]

    --
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
    Starting Score:    1  point
    Moderation   +1  
       Informative=1, Total=1
    Extra 'Informative' Modifier   0  
    Karma-Bonus Modifier   +1  
    Total Score:   3