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Download full textMiller, Jessica – Utah System of Higher Education, 2019
Prior learning refers to the knowledge, competencies, and skills acquired through formal and informal education outside a traditional academic environment or at the initiative of the individual learner. For example, if a current or potential student participated in an employee training program, military service, or took standardized exams such as…
Descriptors: College Credits, Prior Learning, Adults, Nontraditional Students
Price, Derek V.; Sedlak, Wendy – Achieving the Dream, 2018
Community college students start college with goals including transferring to earn a bachelor's degree and gaining the skills and credentials that have immediate labor market value. These goals are not mutually exclusive. Students deserve access to clear pathways, whether they enroll in short-term education and training programs or in college…
Descriptors: Continuing Education, Educational Opportunities, Community Colleges, College Transfer Students
Direct linkAssociation of Canadian Community Colleges, 2011
This paper describes the programs and services colleges have in place to facilitate student mobility, and documents the main regional and provincial/territorial mechanisms to facilitate transfer of post-secondary credits from one institution to another. Because there are many terms used to describe elements of post-secondary transferability and…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Foreign Countries, Educational Mobility, College Transfer Students
Peer reviewedEbersole, John – Continuing Higher Education Review, 2010
America does not have the workforce it needs for the economy that it has. That was a conclusion of the Commission on the Future of Higher Education in 2006. The Commission went on to note that if current trends are not reversed, the US economy and per capita income will actually decrease over the next 15 years, for the first time in US history. In…
Descriptors: Transfer Policy, Open Enrollment, Open Universities, Institutional Characteristics
Further Education Unit, London (England). – 1989
This bulletin is the sixth in a series that provides information on a collaborative project known as MainFrame to develop youth training programs in Great Britain. It describes the assessment procedures used in the youth training programs and examines project progress toward its main objective--the development of a unit credit transfer system--and…
Descriptors: Credits, Foreign Countries, Job Training, Postsecondary Education
Improving Articulation and Transfer Relationships. New Directions for Community Colleges, Number 39.
Kintzer, Frederick C., Ed. – New Directions for Community Colleges, 1982
With the intent of revitalizing the study of educational articulation and transfer, this collection of essays describes and assesses the current status of transfer education, points to particular problems and concerns, and highlights specific techniques, activities, and practices. The volume includes "The Transfer Function--One of Many,"…
Descriptors: Accrediting Agencies, Articulation (Education), College Credits, College Transfer Students
