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Competency based training and national qualifications frameworks: insights from South Africa
Ben Parker,Shirley Walters +1 more
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The authors argue for a view of NQFs as a work-in-progress and as contestable artefacts of modern society, which can provide an opportunity to address, in a modest manner, aspects of lifelong learning that contribute to economic development, social justice and personal empowerment.Abstract:
During the last thirty years, National Qualification Frameworks have emerged as an attempt by the state to ‘manage’ the relations between education, training and work. Drawing on South African experiences of ten years of development of a competency and outcomes based National Qualifications Framework (NQF), this paper highlights the areas of greatest contestation and achievement. We argue for a view of NQFs as a work-in-progress and as contestable artefacts of modern society, which can provide an opportunity to address, in a modest manner, aspects of lifelong learning that contribute to economic development, social justice and personal empowerment.read more
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The Role of Higher Education in Promoting Lifelong Learning
TL;DR: In this article, higher education institutes face a strategic imperative to broaden access to lifelong learning opportunities and to move from an elite to a mass system, ensuring that education and learning are available to a diverse student population.
Conceptual evolution and policy developments in lifelong learning
Jin Yang,Raúl Valdés-Cotera +1 more
TL;DR: The Shanghai International Forum on Lifelong Learning as discussed by the authors was held in Shanghai during the World Expo 2010, from 19 to 21 May 2010, with 24 papers collected here document the debates and discussions led by experts from across the world, recounting how lifelong learning has evolved conceptually and how policy has developed in its promotion.
Key Issues and Policy Considerations in Promoting Lifelong Learning in Selected African Countries: Ethiopia, Kenya, Namibia, Rwanda and Tanzania
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss progress and challenges in five African countries relating to the development of formal education, non-formal education, and informal learning, and highlight six key issues that affect the operationalization of lifelong learning: conceptual understandings of learning; recognition of learning achievements; the role of counselling and guidance; teachers and facilitators; financial resources and infrastructure; and coordination among stakeholders.
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Revitalization of clinical skills training at the University of the Western Cape
TL;DR: The results of introducing the skills lab method include a move by students towards self-directed clinical skills development, clinical supervisors adopting the role of facilitators of learning and experiential clinical learning being based on, amongst others, the students' engagement with simulated patients.
Exploring the literature: competency-based education and training and competency-based career frameworks
TL;DR: This work focuses on the development of a whole-of-workforce framework for the Australian health workforce and examines the role of competency-based approaches in this context.
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