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They also worry about cost and favor making it easier for working adults to earn degrees, including the awarding of credit for prior learning. 
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Canadian Vocational Association / Association canadienne de la formation professionnelle's insight:
Prior learning assessment (PLA) is a process that involves the identification, documentation, assessment of learning acquired through formal, non-formal and informal study. This may include work and life experience, training, independent study, volunteering, travel, hobbies, and family experiences. Recognition is the award of academic credits, trade/occupational and/or professional certification, or promotion within the workplace. http://www.nqai.ie/docs/international/LYNNLAKE.PPT
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Canadian Vocational Association / Association canadienne de la formation professionnelle's insight:
Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) is a potentially valuable tool for India to bring millions of people back into training and education and set the country on a higher skills trajectory. However, implementing RPL is complex and challenging. In India, forward-thinking organizations are running their own pilot RPL initiatives to lay the groundwork for the introduction of the concept on a wider scale.
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Canadian Vocational Association / Association canadienne de la formation professionnelle's insight:
The overall aim of these Guidelines is to propose principles and mechanisms that can assist Member States in developing or improving structures and procedures to recognise all forms of learning, particularly the outcomes of non-formal and informal learning. While the Guidelines are not legally binding, Member States’ authorities are expected to make efforts to implement the Guidelines as appropriate to their specific national context. http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0021/002163/216360e.pdf
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Americans overwhelmingly view a higher education as essential to landing a good job and achieving financial security, but they have doubts about its quality and affordability. They also favor changes in higher education that would make obtaining a degree more realistic for working adults. Respondents also support the awarding of credit for prior learning and skills acquired outside the classroom. some also said that they would be more likely to enroll in college if they could receive credit for what they already knew.
Related report. America's Call for Higher Education Redesign
http://www.luminafoundation.org/publications/Americas_Call_for_Higher_Education_Redesign.pdf