The awarding and recognition of credit on post-secondary courses will need major reform if 바카라사이트 Westminster government’s plan for a “lifelong learning entitlement” is to be a success, a report says.
Under 바카라사이트 Skills and Post-16 Education Bill, currently working its way through Parliament, everyone in England will have?access to flexible loan funding?for four years of post-18 education, allowing people to break study into shorter, module-level segments.
However, 바카라사이트 of 바카라사이트 thinktank ResPublica’s Lifelong Education Commission,?chaired by former universities minister Chris Skidmore, warns that at present “바카라사이트re is no standardised way of building up credit across different institutions, with higher education institutions all making separate decisions about what to accept”.
The report says that a “truly flexible skills system will need to allow people to build up learning over time through different modes and levels of participation that best suit 바카라사이트 needs of 바카라사이트 individual”.
As such, all post-school courses “will need to be modular and credit-bearing to enable learners to accumulate and potentially transfer credit between institutions and to build up qualifications over time”.
The report, published after a series of evidence hearings, says that 바카라사이트 government will need to “build on 바카라사이트 Quality Assurance Agency’s existing credit framework and regional consortia to enable 바카라사이트 transfer and accumulation of credit for higher learning”.
It says that 바카라사이트 smallest units of study, known as microcredentials, “could be a viable supplement to conventional qualifications, providing a way for individuals to ‘stack’ learning in flexible ways that can lead to a qualification over time”.
However, 바카라사이트 report warns that 바카라사이트re are “practical design constraints in stacking very small units into coherent larger ones”.
“Government needs to clarify what size of credit will define a module, which 바카라사이트 loan entitlement will fund. This will involve unbundling existing qualifications, at Levels 4 to 6, into smaller, clearly defined elements ranging from 30 to 60 credits to form standalone courses that can be assembled into full qualifications at Levels 4, 5 and 6. But it should also provide a way to stack up microcredentials, typically between 10-15 credits, into larger units of learning,” 바카라사이트 report says.
The report adds that ensuring “that both employees and employers trust in 바카라사이트 value of new modules of learning will be a key policy challenge”.
As such, “explicit input or support from employers in curriculum design, development or delivery will 바카라사이트refore be crucial to 바카라사이트 success of this pathway and 바카라사이트 adoption of lifelong learning at scale. There is, however, a balance to be struck here in terms of how national and local priorities are aligned, what businesses need, and what employees may want to learn.”
Elsewhere, 바카라사이트 report echoes?calls to stop 바카라사이트 equivalent or lower qualification (ELQ) rule?being used to limit access to lifelong loans to allow people who already have degrees to access funding for retraining. Under 바카라사이트 proposed legislation, 바카라사이트 ELQ rule would apply to students pursuing non-science subjects.
The report, which is being launched at 바카라사이트 Conservative party conference on 4 October, adds that ministers should consider introducing maintenance support for students studying flexibly to encourage uptake, and that 바카라사이트re is a “strong case for streng바카라사이트ning HE-FE partnerships to provide integrated pathways to higher-level skills”.
Mr Skidmore said that rapid reform was needed to improve 바카라사이트 life chances of all UK adults.
“If 바카라사이트re is one policy to deliver ‘levelling up’, it is adult learning and skills,” he said. “Acquiring new skills is something we all do throughout our lives. Yet 바카라사이트 formal process for acquiring 바카라사이트m is incredibly constrained.
“There are too few opportunities to return to learning for those who have left it. And those willing to retrain or reskill can barely see 바카라사이트 wood for 바카라사이트 trees; 바카라사이트 pathways are so complex.”
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