RECOGNITION OF PRIOR LEARNING: 2016 CO-ORDINATION POLICY TO BE REPLACED

RECOGNITION OF PRIOR LEARNING: 2016 CO-ORDINATION POLICY TO BE REPLACED

• 23 May 2024
• Education & Training
• SA Legal Academy

The Department of Higher Education & Training has gazetted a notice calling for input by 22 June 2024 on a draft recognition of prior learning implementation framework for the post-school education and training system. The intention is that, once finalised, the framework will repeal and replace a recognition of prior learning co-ordination policy published in 2016. This is noting proposals to that effect released in March 2023 for comment.

Against that backdrop, the draft framework’s overarching purpose is to ‘ensure that the objectives of the National Qualification Framework Act, 2008, are realised’.

To that end, it seeks to:

• ‘facilitate access to, and mobility and progression within, education and training and career paths’, and
• ‘accelerate the redress of past unfair discrimination in education, training and employment opportunities’ by:
  • creating ‘a more unified, coherent, and effective recognition of prior learning policy environment’
  • ‘simplifying and institutionalising recognition of prior learning co-ordination and implementation’ across the post-school education and training system, and
  • encouraging post-school education and training providers to ‘embed recognition of prior learning practices in (their) organisational culture, policies and procedures’.

The proposed new implementation framework has implications not only for the broader post-school education and training system (including South Africa’s three quality councils) but also for professional bodies, employers and organised labour.

• draft framework  
• Government Gazette notice
• March 2023 notice
• 2016 co-ordination policy

Published by SA Legal Academy Policy Watch

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