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 […]

Read More...

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 […]

Read More...

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 […]

Read More...