National Institute of Adult Continuing Education (NIACE): Handbook of the Recognition of Prior Learning: Research into practice

Contains four main sections: Overview chapters Researching the Recognition of Prior Learning: The emergence of a field; and Advances in Theorising RPL; Policy-oriented chapters Lifelong Learning Policy and RPL in the Learning Society: The promise of Faure?; and RPL, Labour Markets and National Qualifications Frameworks: A policy perspective; Issues-based chapters RPL and Workforce Development; Treading […]

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European Union Guidance and Validation Practitioners’ Competence Profile

This European Union competency profile document outlines the Guidance and Validation Practitioners’ Competence Profile. The Competence Profile is structured into: a) more general transversal competences of guidance and validation practitioners – these are applicable in different validation stages and for different purposes (e.g. working with validation candidates, working with colleagues, organisational purposes, one’s own further […]

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Danube University Krems

Danube University Krems offers the following course: The continuing education program “Validation and Recognition of Competencies and Learning Achievements in Education” provides students with validation skills for efficient and responsible action that takes into account the ethical, economic, and political requirements of the education sector. Students are thus enabled to create optimal organizational frameworks for […]

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European Union Common Transversal Skills

This European Union document outlines a Common Transversal Skills Framework including a 9-level performance scale for the following competencies: managing and organizing activities; solving problems and reacting to the unforeseen; cooperating and fostering cooperation; using oral communication in one or several languages; resource management; taking professional, social and cultural norms into account; using written communication […]

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