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RPL/APEL

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Two Decades Of Rpl/Apel In Ireland: Practitioner Views, Maeve O’Grady Jun 2013

Two Decades Of Rpl/Apel In Ireland: Practitioner Views, Maeve O’Grady

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The process led with the supply of forms written in a formal language that the participants were not used to. The RPL was to be done first, before there was any familiarity with the formal language and requirements of third-level. Their experiential knowledge was tacit and needed to be brought to a cognitive level.


Two Decades Of Rpl/Apel In Ireland: Practitioner Views, Phil O’Leary Jun 2013

Two Decades Of Rpl/Apel In Ireland: Practitioner Views, Phil O’Leary

Level 3

I was first involved with RPL in 1996. I began working in CIT in July of that year to run a project trialing APL. It was a two year project, funded under the EU Adapt programme to develop and deliver policy and procedures for APL and to trial its use. The project proposal was written by CIT staff members Ray Coughlan and Michael Delaney.