International Research Snapshot
RESEARCH SNAPSHOT | Marjan McKeough , Senior Librarian, ETIS (Education and Training Information Service) Centre for Learning & Innovation, DET
The ETIS intranet is available to TAFE NSW staff.
This eZine feature is brought to you by ETIS - the Department of Education and Training’s Education and Training Information Service. ETIS manages the NSW Vocational Education and Training Database linking in with the national vocational education database managed by NCVER. They are excellently placed and qualified to identify and share with us these key, recent reports and articles with particular relevance to VET teaching and learning. (Ed)
International Focus on RPL
International reports and journal citations on Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) from 2006 – a selection
Re-theorising the recognition of prior learning
Per Andersson and Judy Harris
ISBN: 1 86201 265 2
July 2006
Publisher’s information
Summary of above book available here and this entry also includes links to summaries of individual chapters.
Vocational Education and Training in Australia, the United Kingdom and Germany
Authors:Misko, Josie
Publication Date:2006
Abstract:This report compares the provision of vocational education and training (VET) in Australia, Germany and the United Kingdom and includes a chapter on the issues surrounding recognition of prior learning in these countries.
Full-text (50 pages)
NOTE: Josie Misko is a presenter at ICVET’s Learning Powerhouse conference in August, 2007
Recognition of prior learning strategies in Norway
This website includes examples of national and international projects as well a number of reports and resources.
Europass + project
http://www.europass-info.de/EN/was-ist-der-europass.asp
http://www.europassplus.info/europassplus/p/index.html
includes transparent tools to enable the certification and recognition of formal learning experiences across Europe with plans to include the recognition of information learning experiences in the future
The European inventory.
Making informal and non-formal learning visible and validated is an intrinsically challenging task. The European inventory helps to make visible informal and non-formal learning and validated this task by collecting updated information on current practices in a wide range of countries and making this information, including best practice examples, available to a wide range of audiences. The European inventory is a key tool for realising lifelong learning in Europe. It provides a catalogue of good practices in the area of validation for policy-makers and others to seek inspiration in.
Information about RPL programs and strategies for refugees in the UK:
Refugees need tailored routes to employment - UK
http://www.niace.org.uk/news/PressReleases/PR30.07.pdf (3 pages)
Progress GB
http://www.niace.org.uk/Research/ASR/Projects/Progress-GB.htm
Valuing skills and supporting integration: A policy report on the lessons learned by auditing and developing the skills of asylum seekers as the basis for social and vocational integration
Sue Waddington
http://www.theparliament.com/NR/rdonlyres/4D72D259-9D56-48D4-AD4E-5B1CDA0154CA/0/ASSETUKPolicyReport.pdf (50 pages)
Skills Audits for Asylum Seekers and Refugees: A Practitioners’ Manual
Fiona Aldridge et al
http://www.theparliament.com/NR/rdonlyres/8CD0B8FB-6BDA-4560-B905-B1F6BD178775/0/ASSETUKmanual.pdf (104 pages)
From the VOCED database:
Synergies between formal and non-formal education: an overview of good practices Mehboob Dada.
UNESCO. Division of Basic Education. Section for Literacy and Nonformal Education
Imprint: Paris: UNESCO, 2006. 375 p.
Subject: Report; Formal education; Nonformal education; Basic education; Developing country; Recognition of prior learning; Literacy; Human resource development; Innovation; Educational planning; Case study; Poverty; Assessment; Latin America; Asia Pacific region; Africa; Arab States
Link to full-text
Evaluation of an access route to higher education through a work-based assessment strategy
Morag Harvey and Tim Slaughter.
Imprint: London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis, 2006.
Source: Assessment & evaluation in higher education, v. 32, no. 1, February 2007. pp.35-43
Subject: Article; Work based learning; Higher education; Open university; Workplace learning; Accreditation; Assessment; Recognition of prior learning; Access to education
Link to the text
Analysis and evaluation of factors relating to accrediting 100% of prior experiential learning in UK work-based awards
Colin Chisholm and Margaret Davis.
Imprint: London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis, 2006.
Source: Assessment & evaluation in higher education, v. 32, no. 1, February 2007. pp.45-59
Subject: Article; Work based learning; Higher education; Workplace learning; Accreditation; Assessment; Recognition of prior learning; Access to education; Model
Link to the text