Vocational education and training - VET

"The labour shortage in certain key sectors of the economy is of concern to political authorities. As evidence of this, in 2021 the Minister of Higher Education mandated the Conseil supérieur de l’éducation (hereinafter Council) to examine the potential of the recognition of acquired competencies (RAC) to contribute to the qualification and requalification of individuals, resulting in the brief Recognition of Acquired Competencies at the College Level : An Avenue to Be Optimized and Promoted." -- AQPC

Validation is the process that makes learning acquired in non-formal and informal settings visible and ‘usable’ for the individual. Whatever they may call it - accreditation of prior learning, prior learning assessment – the underlying principle in validation is that all learning is valuable, irrespective of how or where it has been acquired.

This synthesis report forms part of the 2016 update to the European inventory on validation of non-formal and informal learning. It is accompanied by 36 country reports and four thematic reports. The inventory provides a regularly updated overview of validation practices and arrangements in all Member States, EFTA countries and Turkey. The 2016 update is the sixth update (2004, 2005, 2008, 2010, 2014).