Recognition of Prior Learning: Opening Higher Education in South Africa through Optimal Inclusion

Abstract

One of the ambitions of the draft Open Learning Policy Framework for Post-School Education and Training (DHET 2017) is to open up learning to students via recognition of prior learning (RPL). RPL is defined in South African national policy as “the principles and processes through which the prior knowledge and skills of a person are made visible, mediated and assessed, for the purposes of alternative access and admission, recognition and certification, or further learning and development” (SAQA 2019).