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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