Learn how to solve attendance, compliance, and retention challenges in distance and blended learning programs. Distance learning has been popular in the nursing and allied health sector for some time now, allowing students to level up their credentials on their own time. However, it increased in popularity during the COVID-19 pandemic when schools shifted online… Continue reading [GUIDE] Distance Learning for Allied Health, Nursing, and Trade Programs
Career and technical education programs can improve student retention through intervention automation. What happens when a student at your school becomes at risk of dropping out? Does it take several days for you to gather the data and create an intervention plan, or do you act immediately to get students back on track? Unfortunately, many… Continue reading [GUIDE] Improving Student Retention With Intervention Automation
In a recent survey, career education institutions ranked staff retention as a greater challenge in 2023 than student retention. Here’s how this one strategy can improve both. Student retention has always been one of the most critical measures of success in career education. It directly impacts compliance and your bottom line. But most critically, when… Continue reading The Relationship Between Student And Staff Retention
Student self-retention is the idea that students guide themselves toward graduation with less external intervention. Learn how to foster it. 90 percent of schools have goals to improve their graduation rates. Unfortunately, only 49 percent have a solid strategy to do so. Those who do have a retention strategy in place plan to upgrade facilities,… Continue reading What is Student Self-Retention and How To Foster It
Use this self-audit as a starting point to help you increase placement and completion rates. What sets career education programs apart from traditional higher education is a hyper-focus on completion and placements. Students choose career education knowing that they can complete a program in a short period of time and start making money immediately after… Continue reading [Self-Audit] Six Questions To Ask If You Want To Increase Placement and Completion Rates
How to identify at-risk students and improve retention rates.
To decrease student attrition in career education programs, focus on leveraging your student data and building support services. There’s no program with an attrition rate of 0%, but even decreasing student attrition just a few percentage points could have a big impact on schools and students alike. Life happens, and sometimes students drop out due… Continue reading 6 Ways to Decrease Student Attrition In Career Education Programs
These top ten retention tips are based on conversations with leading career education institutions across the country.
To improve retention, CourseKey’s Retention Dashboard pulls in data from the LMS, SIS, and other technology to give your school a real-time view of at-risk students in one easy-to-use dashboard. Ena Hull, COO, Legacy Education Retention is the lifeblood of a school. It directly impacts revenue, compliance, and, most importantly, a student’s opportunity to achieve… Continue reading Introducing: CourseKey’s Retention Dashboard
By leveraging real-time attendance software, vocational schools can take a proactive approach to retention while ensuring students remain safe in an emergency. Do you know where your students are? No, really—are you 100% sure? Yes, they’re supposed to be in class. But, let’s be honest, that’s not always the case. Throw in externship attendance, where… Continue reading Do You Know Where Your Students Are?
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