Qualifications systems
Subtitle: bridges to lifelong learning.
Contributors: Coles, Mike, 1947-; Werquin, Patrick.; Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.; SourceOECD (Online service)
Series: Education and training policy
Publisher: OECD; oecd publishing
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Paris
Language: eng
Number of pages: 237
ISBN-13: 9789264013674
Subjects: Continuing education; Adult learning
Other titles: Systémes de certification : des passerelles pour apprendre a tout âge.; Education and training policy qualifications systems.
Description: In the quest for more and better lifelong learning, there is a growing awareness that qualifications systems must play a part. Some countries have started to realise that isolated developments in qualifications standards lead to uncoordinated, piecemeal systems. After reviewing the policies and practice in fifteen countries, the authors present nine broad policy responses to the lifelong learning agenda that countries have adopted and that relate directly to their national qualifications system. They also identify twenty mechanisms, or concrete linkages, between national qualifications systems and lifelong learning goals. The overall aim of this book is to provide these mechanisms as a tool for governments to use in reviewing their policy responses to lifelong learning. Evidence suggests that some mechanisms, such as those linked to credit transfer, recognition of prior learning, qualifications frameworks and stakeholder involvement, are especially powerful in promoting lifelong learning.
Notes: Also available in French under the title: Systémes de certification : des passerelles pour apprendre a tout âge.

"This book is authored by Mike Coles ... and Patrick Werquin"--Foreword.

Includes bibliographical references.