August 26, 2015      5:51 PM
WGU Texas builds success on competency-based education model
"Survey results confirm that access to affordable, flexible higher education options is imperative for today’s students.”
The cost of a postsecondary education –
and the and the various obstacles one needs to overcome to achieve it -- do not
make the attainment of a degree or certificate any less desirable, according to
a higher education poll out today from WGU Texas.
Those findings, culled from a telephone
survey commissioned by WGU Texas, are probably not surprising.
The era of a lifetime career with a single employer is over. Most Texans
recognize, on at least one level, that a career involves multiple jobs with
potentially different employers that involve a progression of skills and
experience.
Of those surveyed, a third saw their
current job as a “stepping stone” on their career path. Two-thirds of those
polled recognized it would take training or education to get the kind of career
they eventually hope to achieve. And yet 3.7 million Texans have training or
education short of a degree or certificate, said WGU
Chancellor Veronica Vargas Stidvent on a conference call with reporters this
morning.
By Kimberly Reeves
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