Assessment of recognition of prior learning experiences of students in the TVET system in Ghana. Is it a rhetoric or reality?
Journal Title: IOSR Journal of Research & Method in Education (IOSRJRME) - Year 2018, Vol 8, Issue 3
Abstract
The changing economic and working environment has led to increasing emphasis on what individuals have acquired outside the educational institutions as a key policy issue in developing countries such as Ghana. Its potential is enormous not only as a framework for providing retrospective credit, exemptions and advanced standing into higher education programmes, but also crucially, as a tool for continuing professional development and wider workforce development. This paper explores the whole process of recognising prior learning of students, through the review of research studies, identifies successes and barriers hindering its implementation and describes the lead taken in other countries from which Ghana can learn. A lot of efforts have been put into the policy initiatives of RPL in the TVET institutions in Ghana but there seems to be lack of commitment in its implementation. The paper therefore concludes with policy guidelines that will enable the benefits of RPL to learners, institutions, employers and the nation to be realised.
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Dr. Peter Boahin
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