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The recognition of prior learning: Validating general competences

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  • Michela Meghnagi

    (OECD)

  • Michele Tuccio

    (OECD)

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The recognition of prior learning enhances upskilling and reskilling pathways by shortening the duration of training and offering more personalised learning pathways to adults. While the majority of recognition systems focus on professional and technical competences for the purpose of entering and progressing in the labour market, the recognition of adults’ general competences – i.e. cross-field competences that all individuals need for personal fulfilment and development – is less common, despite its clear importance for upskilling pathways, including its positive benefits for the individuals – for whom the validation of their past experiences often becomes a central source of motivation to engage in further learning – and for the society – for which recognition represents a stepping-stone to the spread of upskilling strategies. Thanks to new evidence gathered through desk research and interviews with numerous stakeholders throughout Europe, this paper sheds new light on the characteristics of recognition systems focusing on adults’ general competences.

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  • Michela Meghnagi & Michele Tuccio, 2022. "The recognition of prior learning: Validating general competences," OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Papers 270, OECD Publishing.
    • Handle: RePEc:oec:elsaab:270-en
    DOI: 10.1787/2d9fb06a-en
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    Keywords

    Adult learning; Competences; Education; Recognition of prior learning; Skills; Training; Validation;
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    JEL classification:

    • I24 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Education and Inequality
    • J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
    • M53 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Personnel Economics - - - Training

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