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Lambda School doesn’t currently look at credit history or require collateral.
Neither do traditional Federal student loans.
Yup! The point is most private loans do
Lambda School wants to teach nursing
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Don't know why this was downvoted. Having gone through higher ed, I think "undermining existing educational institutions" is a great thing. Now if we could just get rid of the standard hierarchical corporate structure...
Average people are already generally pretty ignorant... Removing even basic general knowledge from society, is not going to do anything good. We tend to underestimate that because we (engineers / people on HN) mostly happen to have a good education and interest in general knowledge.
Improving general knowledge and ability is an admirable goal. But education is pretty bad at it.
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> You don't want your ER nurse to be smug about how smart they are, while they do shoddy work with fad tools and halfwitted cargo cult processes. Unfortunately, this may already be the case with people who graduate from medical assistant and physician assistant schools. From what I hear from doctors is that the quality of these graduates are sub-par. They are usually confident in their medical knowledge while repeate…
Wow, lots to unpack here. First off, MAs are not remotely comparable to PAs or physicians. MAs typically earn a certificate, and salary is 20-30k. They are typically office or clerical workers with a medical support role. They are not diagnosticians or prescribers, like physicians, PAs, or NPs are. So talk of MAs 'practicing medicine' is weird, they don't, that's not the job role. We need them, they aren't well paid.…
Your entire critique depends on whether the person you're responding to can't differentiate MA from PA. This person is reporting that doctors have told him that MA and PA's somehow aren't being well trained, and they're also reporting a sense of smugness.
So do you think this person is lying or not? Did these conversations in fact take place? That's the more basic question to ask first.
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That’s actually not how it breaks down, I told the reporter I segment the company into three sections in my mind, he asked which is more important, and I said they all have to work.
Then the reporter seriously misled me about what you said, and I apologize. I'm curious about the real breakdown between marketing to students and hospitals, overhead and executive pay, and instructor pay, but I can understand if you don't want to reveal that.
I don't think anyone misled anyone, it's a question of "focus/improtance" vs "costs," which are two different things. We have to do them all well, and will be building out different teams with equal focus, but right now most of our expenses go to instructors.
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#137This is ironic. My girlfriend, a nurse of 10+ years, got accepted to the Lambda School web dev track and is starting at the end of May, to get out of nursing.
Oh is this the one with the website posted a few weeks back?
It sure is! She applied, got accepted and finished all the pre-coursework.