When you hire an employee to work for your company, he must remain competent. An incompetent employee can slow down the company's overall productivity, as well as lower the morale of the workplace ...

Earlier this year Capella University and the new College for America began enrolling hundreds of students in academic programs without courses, teaching professors, grades, deadlines or credit hour ...

Competency-based education (CBE) programs may be an appealing alternative to conventional seat-time-based postsecondary degrees, but CBE’s long-term viability hinges on the credibility of these ...

Competency-based education is gaining steam, but questions remain about which forms the U.S. Department of Education will back. Scores of colleges are gearing up to offer new competency-based degrees.