According to Cnn.com, the hottest job skill is…translation. These kinds of articles are always a little problematic — just because “the hottest job skill is language translation,” doesn’t mean you should drop whatever educational plans you might have had to go running after language learning. I will always emphasize that you’re probably going to be better off pursuing a skill in which you have interest, and doing it exceedingly well, than you are pursuing something…
Salon has an article up, aggregating information from a number of different news sources, about MOOCs (Massively Open Online Courses) and their role in…
I’m a writer. Given that you’re reading this, you probably already figured that out. Maybe I should’ve planned the introduction to this post a…
We’ve seen several articles over the past weeks focusing on college choices as they relate to career success, including which majors lead to the…
It’s Monday and you know what that means: only 5 more days until the weekend! It’s also Halloween week, so hopefully most of you have…
If you’ve been paying attention to the news for the past day or so, you may have seen reports with headlines like, “College Costs…
NPR reports on research from Georgetown University, presenting information the most and least lucrative majors in two convenient graphs. It’s useful information and it’s…
So the Common App and its technological challenges are still in the news this week. After reading a ton of articles on the topic,…
Welcome to the first of what will be an ongoing weekly feature here at the Peterson’s Newswire: our Monday Link Roundup. Every week we’ll…
A new article on Forbes is all about how the need for workers who’ve studied STEM (that is, Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) subjects…