Webinar "Recognition of Prior Learning – state of play and implications for ENIC-NARIC Centres"

Webinar "Recognition of Prior Learning  – state of play and implications for ENIC-NARIC Centres" held on 25 October 2021 at 14:00-15:30 CEST in virtual modality

The ENIC-NARIC Networks are primarily working with the implementation of the LRC, with the purpose to facilitate recognition of documented foreign qualifications which have been awarded within the formal system of education.

Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) is not (yet?) mentioned in the LRC. However, RPL has received increasing attention within the recognition community with recurring discussions in the Bologna Process, and not least through the growing focus on the recognition of learning outcomes and competences.

RPL has also recently been mentioned as a possible process for recognition of micro-credentials issued by providers outside the HE sector, and for responding to the recognition needs to persons such as refugees with incomplete and undocumented history (i.e. the EQPR and the Background paper).

The aim of the workshop is to provide a description of what Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) is.

The description comes also with an overview of the methodology to identify, document and assess an individual’s competences in relation to a set standard, qualification or learning outcome. We’ll have a look at what the differences are between this methodology and the recognition process which we apply in the ENIC-NARIC Networks, and how the RPL methodology can complement our work.

Panel

Chair: Jean Philippe Restouix, Council of Europe

Speakers:

• Cecilia George, ENIC-NARIC Sweden

• Angela Lambkin, ENIC-NARIC Ireland

• Ína Dögg Eyþórsdóttir, ENIC-NARIC Iceland

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