Assessment of Prior Learning

Malcolm Day is a Lecturer in Adult Nursing and APL Advisor at Nottingham University School of Nursing, where he runs a postgraduate teaching and learning module as part of the PGCE for newly appointed university teaching staff.Malcolm is also Secretary to the newly formed International Indigenous RPL Collective. This is a worldwide network that recognises the prior learning(RPL) of indigenous people, and he has had a key role in facilitating the development of APL within British Columbia and the newly emergent Universities of Technology in South Africa.

• PrefaceChapter One: What is Assessment of Prior Learning?Chapter Two: Benchmarks for Assessment of Prior LearningChapter Three: Developments in the UK- the case of pre-registration nurse trainingChapter 4: Prior Learning Assessment and Recognition (PLAR): a case study of a human service programme in CanadaChapter 5: Assessment of prior learning in the USChapter 6: The case of a human services related programme in MauritiusChapter 7: The Career of the APL Practitioner

DRAFT CHAPTER ONE, CONTEXTS CHAPTER TWO, PERSPECTIVES CHAPTER THREE, DEVELOPMENTS IN THE UK CHAPTER FOUR, DEVELOPMENTS IN CANADA CHAPTER FIVE DEVELOPMENTS IN THE UNITED STATES CHAPTER SIX, THE CAREER OF THE PLA PRACTITIONER CHAPTER SEVEN, CONCLUSION