The Placement Economy 📮Transcend Newsletter XXI

My friends and I founded a university over the summer and...it's going great?! And it's been surprisingly painless to start and run?!

It's a "network university," which is our fancy term for a new type of social institution: one that transforms an existing network into a social commons where ppl can learn, do research, and create groundbreaking wor... See more

Employers need workers trained with the right skills. Students need training programs that lead to employment and don't increase their debt. Both are craving ROI. By connecting both sides, and using creative financing solutions (ISAs and scholarships, to name just two options), training programs can deliver ROI to both employers and students: bridg... See more

what if universities offered students shorter-term courses for in-demand skills (software, cybersecurity, data skills and others making up the global skills gap), and then have employers or recruiters pay for a part of their tuition if they are hired or placed? Those employers could even bring them on board through apprenticeships and learn in the ... See more