By Tara García Mathewson, Education Dive
Clint Schmidt, COO of Bloc, questions partnerships between coding bootcamps and accredited institutions as a “dangerous backdoor to access federal student loans.” In an article for LinkedIn, Bloc argues that funding opportunity would give bootcamps a chance to go after easy money, focusing less on student outcomes, like some for-profit colleges have been accused of doing. He suggests one accountability measure — asking a board of experienced developers to review portfolios of bootcamp graduates and ensure they actually got the job-ready skills they meant to pay for.
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