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Direct linkEija Metsälä; Anne Karjalainen – European Journal of Education, 2025
Health care professional's qualifications earned in one country may not be recognised in another country and will require validation. The aim of the study was to investigate the experiences of immigrant healthcare professionals seeking the recognition of their education credentials in Finland. Altogether 11 professionals applying to a programme to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Nurses, Immigrants, Qualifications
Heinonen, Annemari; Tuomainen, Satu – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2020
The processes to assess students' learning acquired in various non-formal and informal learning environments have become increasingly common in Finnish university language centres in recent years. This paper describes new developments at the University of Eastern Finland to assess students' non-formal and informal learning of English for Academic…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Prior Learning, Foreign Countries, Laboratories
Tuomainen, Satu – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2018
Recognition of prior learning (RPL) is a principle in education to acknowledge and validate learning acquired during and throughout an individual's lifetime. Formal, non-formal and informal learning can be assessed, recognised and accredited for various purposes in an individual's education or professional life. The methods of assessing prior…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Informal Education, Lifelong Learning, College Students
Pilkinton-Pihko, Diane; Suviniitty, Jaana; Kauppinen, Tomi – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2019
Living in learning societies encourages learning outside the classroom. Alongside this reality, higher education institutions have been incorporating policies and procedures that support recognition of prior learning (RPL). This development means establishing adequate RPL assessment practices. Our empirical study at the Aalto University Language…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Prior Learning
Tuomainen, Satu – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2014
In recent years Finnish university language centres have increasingly developed procedures for assessing and recognising the skills in English for Specific Purposes (ESP) that students acquire in various non-formal and informal learning environments. This article describes the procedures developed by the University of Eastern Finland Language…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Business Administration Education, English for Special Purposes, Second Language Learning
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The aim of this paper is to present some results of a pilot study designed to find out the extent to which English words and expressions are already familiar to Swedish-speaking children before they start studying English at school, that is, at the end of their fourth school year. The study drew data from a simple productive and receptive English…
Descriptors: Child Language, Children, Elementary Education, English (Second Language)
