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September 9, 2025

New Report Says Skills and Degrees Must Coexist

Amit Sevak | CEO

  • Workforce Development

Forbes highlights insights from ETS CEO Amit Sevak in a recent article exploring how higher education can bridge the gap between academic degrees and measurable skills.

Originally published by Forbes on September 9, 2025

U.S. public trust in higher education is on the rise for the first time in a decade. According to research by Gallup, 42% of Americans are confident in institutions of higher education and attribute their feelings to quality and innovation. Still, there are those who do not value higher education and often point to high-profile individuals – such as Microsoft’s Bill Gates, Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, or Figma’s Dylan Field who dropped out of college as proof that higher education does not matter. According to Amit Sevak, CEO of ETS, pointing to the success of a few aberrations is a dangerous oversimplification.

Read the full article on Forbes.

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