Earlier this year, Donald Trump said this to a group of Republican lawmakers: “Today you have community colleges and you have all of the—when I was growing up we had vocational schools . . . You learn ...

For higher education reform, alternative credentials such as vocational certificates have blossomed as a way to provide skills training that leads to a job. However, it’s not clear whether they ...

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The Washington Monthly is the first and only publication to rank America’s best colleges for vocational certificates. To build the rankings, we pulled numbers for the twelve most common undergraduate ...

In late summer, U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos announced that her department will repeal the gainful-employment rule, one of Barack Obama’s hallmark efforts to hold colleges more accountable ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Students who earned vocational certificates from for-profit colleges made an average of $900 less annually after attending the schools than they did before, ...

Her head start came from a vocational certificate incorporated into her high school studies, so she graduated last year with a qualification to work as a teacher aide. Now the 18-year-old is studying ...

During an apprenticeship or vocational training programme, you learn a profession. There are many different programmes, for example you can train to become a baker, an electrical engineer, a carer, a ...