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Our work on Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) was part of the approach to widening participation in higher education institutions (HEIs) in Scotland. RPL can help make higher education more accessible to non-traditional learners, encourage different forms of flexible learning paths and engage a more diverse student body.
QAA Scotland worked with the higher education sector to develop the National Framework for RPL. The key purposes of the Framework are to:
Publication Date: 15 Jan 2014
QAA Scotland and Universities Scotland RPL Higher Education Network worked with Scottish higher education institutions to develop a National Framework for Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL)
| Author: | QAA Scotland |
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The Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) toolkit, developed in 2014, is based around the Viewpoints method, a project led by the University of Ulster. The toolkit offers staff and students a practical way to develop RPL initiatives.
The resource consists of a sets of three cards, which you can use in a variety of workshop sessions. Each set deals with a different part of the RPL implementation process:
The accompanying toolkit handbook explains the method behind the toolkit and gives valuable guidance about how to use it.
Publication Date: 15 Jan 2014
A toolkit to support departments, programme teams and learners in understanding, engaging with, planning for and implementing RPL.
| Author: | QAA Scotland |
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| Size: | 2465 KB |
Publication Date: 15 Jan 2014
The worksheet and cards to be used in conjunction with the RPL toolkit handbook. The toolkit supports departments, programme teams and learners in understanding, engaging with, planning for and implementing RPL.
| Author: | QAA Scotland |
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This project, commissioned in 2010, had the aim of gathering case studies of RPL in HEIs in Scotland and the rest of Europe.
Publication Date: 15 Jan 2014
This collection of 25 case studies includes a rich variety of RPL initiatives and provide an important resource for practitioners, institutions and countries looking to introduce, develop, or expand practice and policies relating to RPL.
| Author: | Various institutions from 11 countries |
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| Size: | 1190 KB |
Publication Date: 15 Jan 2014
These guidelines aimed to support the university sector in Scotland to develop and implement more streamlined, enhanced approaches to Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) support and assessment.
| Author: | QAA Scotland |
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| Size: | 294 KB |
Publication Date: 15 Jan 2014
The aim of this project was to gather data about the learner experience of undertaking a claim for the recognition of prior informal learning in higher education in Scotland. The research was funded by QAA Scotland and instigated and developed through the RPL Network.
| Author: | QAA Scotland |
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| Size: | 328 KB |
Publication Date: 15 Jan 2014
This project was designed to support the development of the Streamlining of Recognition of Prior Learning Guidelines. The report gives more detail about the work that was carried out to scope the structure and content of the Guidelines.
| Author: | QAA Scotland |
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| Size: | 615 KB |
