Credit where credit's due: Experiences with the recognition of prior learning and insights for India
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Experts from many international, regional and national agencies generously share their views, experiences and findings on skills, helping policy-makers among other stakeholders to understand the linkages between education, training and the world of work, and how to integrate skills into national development planning to promote employment and economic growth.
Lifelong learning
There is a critical need for a greater overall investment in education and training, particularly in developing countries. Education and training investments should be closely linked to economic and employment growth strategies and programmes. Responsibility should be shared between the government (primary responsibility), enterprises, the social partners, and the individual. To make lifelong learning for all a reality, countries will need to make major reforms of their vocational and education and training systems. School-to-work schemes for young people should integrate education with workplace learning. Training systems need to become more flexible and responsive to rapidly changing skill requirements. Reforms should also focus on how learning can be facilitated, not just on training for specific occupational categories.
Evaluation reports
Analytical assessments of technical cooperation programmes and national skills and employment policies, identifying success factors of different interventions in response to particular challenges in different circumstances.
Research papers
Working papers, reports, and other publications from international organizations, academic institutions and bilateral agencies. Research findings to stimulate informed debate on skills, employment and productivity issues.
Through a series of interviews with LabourNet staff, assessment teams and workers who had undergone the RPL process, the study aims to evaluate the programme's successes in terms of developing and administering RPL, and the views of the initiative's customers - the workers themselves - on the success and value of the programme.
LabourNet's RPL programme, which is carried out for informal workers in the construction sector, highlights both what can be achieved with RPL projects on the ground and what some of the challenges are in implementing it. The organisation has developed an innovative approach to assessment design in the absence of national occupational standards that form the basis of RPL elsewhere, and has successfully developed assessments that can be seen as largely rigorous and accurate.
The report concludes with recommendations on how the lessons learned and insights gained can be taken forward in India and identifies key considerations and good practices for the replication and expansion of RPL in India.
Construction industry
Informal economy
Skills recognition
Asia and the Pacific
