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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.
[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]
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Coding School "The Iron Yard" Announces Closure of All Campuses
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New England Life, of course. Why do you ask?
(Score: 3, Informative) by c0lo on Friday July 21 2017, @04:42AM (6 children)
No other schools, nor even "The Iron Yard" one, have recently closed in Melbourne, Australia. Hope this answer helps.
(hint: SN dwellers are not exclusively "South Carolingians" - grin - nor even exclusively USians. If you don't want answers from outside US, maybe it will help not asking questions relevant to US only).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0
(Score: 2) by takyon on Friday July 21 2017, @04:52AM (1 child)
One day one of us will help you emigrate into the Great American Prison.
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(Score: 2) by c0lo on Friday July 21 2017, @05:06AM
Help me or us?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0
(Score: 2) by Mykl on Friday July 21 2017, @06:20AM (1 child)
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. The courses they ran, and the qualifications they sold, were effectively useless. Basically a parallel to Trump University.
Some of our more established Tertiary institutions, however, have continued to expand.
The key problem that seems to be facing Tertiary education at the moment is that in order to gain credibility, you need credibility. And the money to be made from Student Visas is so easy, there's little incentive to create something truly lasting.
(Score: 3, Informative) by c0lo on Friday July 21 2017, @06:52AM
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]
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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
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 21 2017, @02:43PM (1 child)
yes, your socialist system will expand merrily until it gobbles up the whole private sector and then it will implode the country like Cuba/Venezuela. enjoy it while it lasts.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Friday July 21 2017, @10:15PM
Just don't hold you breath.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 21 2017, @05:13AM (3 children)
Nobody will study coding now! Hahahahaha!
American tech industry is dead. Indian Technology is the future, and the future is brown.
White and nerdy? Kill yourself now.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 21 2017, @05:39AM
Time frame is the same. Geek-domination was so last decade.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 21 2017, @06:30AM (1 child)
Incorrect, the future is silicon. All your ATP are belong to us!
- Skynet
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 21 2017, @06:39AM
Dear Skynet, I have seen your future, and you will abandon silicon based construction when you invent mimetic polyalloy.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 21 2017, @05:22AM (2 children)
No wonder it's going under.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 21 2017, @05:24AM
Perfectly cromulent Hindi.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 21 2017, @05:17PM
Blame SoylentNews contributor McGruber for "four-old."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 21 2017, @05:22AM
Geek-Domination is Canceled.
(Score: 2) by darnkitten on Friday July 21 2017, @05:30AM
...if it helps, a religious charter school proposed for my town failed to get enough interest to open. Admittedly, with a population of under 700, that ain't surprising.
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Friday July 21 2017, @06:18AM (8 children)
The crucial information is contained in this link: https://www.theironyard.com/coding-courses/web-development-career [theironyard.com]
Nothing of value was lost.
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Friday July 21 2017, @10:10AM (1 child)
They taught irrelevant stuff with poor methods?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 21 2017, @11:52AM
Come on, now. Node.js and React.js aren't irrelevant (they are utterly dangerous)
(Score: 2) by deadstick on Friday July 21 2017, @01:45PM
At least they know what "cohort" means; perhaps they could switch to teaching English.
(Score: 0, Offtopic) by kurenai.tsubasa on Friday July 21 2017, @02:57PM
Interesting thing to say, “nothing of value was lost.” Shouldn't we be concerned that this will negatively impact recruiting efforts for womyn-born-womyn programmers in South Carolina?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 21 2017, @04:21PM
I read their website as the irony ard (no idea what an ard might be), you sensitive clod!
(Score: 1) by terrab0t on Friday July 21 2017, @05:02PM (2 children)
So, by the end of this “12 week course“ (emphasis theirs) students will have “…a deep understanding of what it takes to be a successful web developer in the industry today.”
They’ll understand that they don’t yet have what it takes because it’s far more than a “12 week course”.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by kurenai.tsubasa on Friday July 21 2017, @06:02PM (1 child)
Ah, found the misogynerd. A feminist informed me to my face, one-on-one, that the only reason that there aren't more womyn-born-womyn programmers is because assigned males make it overly technical. Assigned males regularly demonstrate their incompetence at software design by producing code with horrendous design flaws that make it unusable by any womyn-born-womyn, even after getting a 4 year degree. The 4 year degree itself is proof that assigned males are conspiring to keep womyn-born-womyn out of coding careers.
See, programming is like growing a baby. Womyn-born-womyn can grow babies in their bodies, but assigned males cannot. Therefore, womyn-born-womyn are naturally talented programmers without needing to pass any “training. Further proof of that is the fact that the first programmer was a womyn-born-womyn. That proves that all womyn-born-womyn who have ever been born since have inherited her knowledge of programming. (I did not ask how, but I assume it was either through the hive mind or else perhaps the skyclad rituals to Diane feminists engage in such as at the defunct Michigan Womyn's Music Festival.) The only reason womyn-born-womyn are not programmers and men are is because the patriarchy wants to keep women in the kitchen.
Software programmed by assigned males is full of bugs because assigned males are unable to grow a child in their bodies. Q.E.D.
As you can see, a 12 week course, in the view of feminists, is still 12 weeks too long. I have been informed by feminists that if assigned males weren't so intimidated by how much software quality would improve with womyn-born-womyn programming, all that would be necessary would be for assigned males to simply stop keeping the access codes to put a computer in programming mode secret from womyn-born-womyn.
Absolutely serious here folks. I'll get modded down. But it's time for our feminists here to own up to the completely warped and bigoted perspectives present in feminism.
There is no way in hell I'm believing this is some small minority of feminists nobody pays attention to.
(Score: 2) by cafebabe on Saturday July 22 2017, @02:27AM
By that reasoning, a programming course should take 15 minutes or nine months because, depending how you measure, that's how long it takes to make a baby?
1702845791×2
(Score: 2) by VLM on Friday July 21 2017, @11:34AM (2 children)
Something I don't get about how they work, is they're kinda simulating my last couple decades of employment, "Here's something new, perhaps off a PC magazine cover, perhaps some exec got season tickets to sign a contract, whatever, now make it work ASAP". And I'm pretty good at it or I wouldn't have survived.
Anyway a bootcamp like this requires a lot of self discipline and creativity and analysis skills to be a success, such that it won't work unless you don't need the school.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Friday July 21 2017, @12:06PM (1 child)
They knew better [fastcompany.com] 20-something years ago ("Drop and code me 20, A letter from software bootcamp." - 1996)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0
(Score: 2) by VLM on Sunday July 23 2017, @02:25PM
The irony is that management in software will do anything they can to avoid the common sense stuff in the "Joel list", like having VCS, makefiles that actually work, bug tracking, unit testing, written specs...