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Recognising prior learning

How an adult's life experience can count as formal qualifications.

What you can do already, you shouldn't relearn

Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL), sometimes called VAE (FR), RVA (DE), RNFIL, is a process where adults document skills gained through work, volunteering, or life and convert them into recognised credit toward a qualification. For refugees, returners-to-work, and informally-trained workers, RPL is a game changer. It is anchored in the European Qualifications Framework (EQF) so credits move across borders. Process…

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