The phrase "educational niche" is correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to a specific area or subject within the larger field of education. Example: "The university has carved out a successful niche in online education, catering to working professionals who want to advance their careers with flexible coursework."
In the absence of a single incontrovertible measure of performance, the rankings provide a degree of accountability in an educational niche where there is too little.
In turn, the CEO hopes that this will provide a rising tide for all boats, lifting the monetization potential, the ability for companies to make money, by allowing them to work within the same educational niche, while specializing within that niche.
Analysts said that cash investment was welcome and the partnership with Pearson, a major publisher of educational textbooks, might herald a strategy to move toward dominating an education niche market.
It's a particular irony here that the government is fully funding a boutique set of free and highly niche educational courses, when the business of attending traditional U.K. higher education requires students to stump up ever increasing tuition fees.
Casual visitors are arriving in fewer numbers and long-term residents seem increasingly to keep themselves to themselves – focusing on niche educational projects, virtual business meetings, sex or art.
They may find a niche as educational tools.
Johnson sees a coming increase in the number of niche education options, with the best courses being offered by practitioner teachers, a la Lynda.com, as the lines between educational publisher, institution, and teacher are blurred.
It now seems to have found a niche as an educational tool for fifth-graders getting their first exposure to United States history.
Now JumpStart, a best-selling educational software developer, is looking to fill this niche with its new JumpStart Virtual World, which launched this week in public beta.
Some common themes are encyclopedia wikis, educational or instructional wikis, and wikis that provide a niche service such as music lyrics.
Available content, the company says, will include 50 categories ranging from independent films to TV programs from outside the United States, and niche market sporting interests like snowboarding, kayaking and educational shows for both kids and adults.
