Education startup Quad Learning helps students transition from community college to four-year universities to lower the cost of earning a bachelor's degree.
The University of Melbourne launches a startup accelerator program for students, modeled after Stanford's StartX.
Philadelphia's Drexel University has installed a Macbook vending machine in the university library. The kiosk dispenses MacBooks free of charge to Drexel students, staff, and faculty, who can use the machines for up to five hours at a time.
Readyforce cross the country to connect top engineering students with jobs at fast-growing startups.
Schoolyard launches a platform that lets students crowdfund their projects directly from alumni.
Coursera's slogan is "Higher education that overcomes the boundaries of geography, time, and money." Except, of course, for the state boundaries of Minnesota.
Education startup Inigral raises $3.25 from the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation and Founders Fund.
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When a startup known as Social Finance raised an astronomical $77.2 million last week to expand its new lending model to colleges and universities across the United States, it seemed almost too good to be true.
Ed tech startup rSmart took $10.75 million for its software designed for to help institutions of higher education run more effectively.
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The Minerva Project, a new “elite university,” just announced it has raised $25 million dollars in seed funding from Benchmark Capital, the largest seed round the venture capital firm has ever invested.
“The demand for higher education has outstripped the …
Researchers are working on an on/off switch for the next generation of credit cards. No, not to stop you from spending money you shouldn’t, but to help protect you from theft and fraud.
Credit cards are moving away from magnetic …
For kids from low-income backgrounds who want to level up, getting money for college is one of the most significant and most daunting challenges to try to overcome.
Takeashine is a new crowdfunding platform that aims to help deserving, underprivileged …
