WIDENING ACCESS TO VALIDATION AND GUIDANCE The proposed amendment in legislation circulated for public consultation in autumn 2019 has been approved, changing the regulations to the Education Act governing validation of prior learning. The new rules take effect from 1 January 2020, allowing candidates to go through the validation process at upper secondary level in […]
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Registration for the final conference of the VISKA project is open
Curious about the results and the policy recommendations of the VISKA Erasmus+ project? Come to our final conference on validation for inclusion – possibilities and challenges. The conference will be held on the 12th of February in Brussels.
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VISKA organised the Flemish conference on 19 November 2019 together with the European Electronic Platform for Adult Learning EPALE. The Flemish VISKA project team welcomed around 60 participants for its national closing conference which took place at Dirk Boutsgebouw in Leuven. To read more about it visit our ‘National Conference – Belgium Flanders ‘ page
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VISKA Flanders will present their results on the 19th of November 2019 in cooperation with EPALE Flanders. The conference will take place in Leuven from 9u untill 14u in ‘Dirk Boutsgebouw (VAC Leuven), Diestsepoort 6. The focus of the conference will lay on advices for optimizing VPL for additional general education in adult education and […]
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This interim report addresses the implementation of the field trials and the emerging data at this point in the project. The background to the project including the legislative, policy and practice landscape in each of the partner countries was detailed in D2.2 Literature Review and Country Needs Analysis This interim report provides a brief synopsis […]
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On the 29th of April VISKA – Iceland tweeted that they were getting ready for the graduation of the first group of candidates from the field trials in Iceland @viskaproject . Congratulations to them all !
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The fifth VISKA progress meeting of the Transnational steering group was held in Oslo from the 27th until the 28th of March. Representatives of all partner countries came together in the offices of Skills Norway to discuss the project progress. A representative from EACEA, a representative from Skills Norway and our external evaluator also took […]
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Representatives of all partner countries came together in the offices of Skills Norway in Oslo from the 25th of April until the 27th. The progress meeting started with a packed agenda, with a focus on furthering the discussion on tools development, an update from the research partner and a presentation of all partners on the […]
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In the VISKA project, quality assurance is an ongoing process. To assure the quality of the project, a separate Work Package is dedicated to QA, to run alongside all the other project activities throughout the project period. One of the features of this Work Package is external evaluation, in which external opinion is sought on […]
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From the 25th until the 27th of October 2017, the VISKA-partners met up for the first progress meeting since the start of the project in February of 2017. The colleagues of the Education and Training Boards Ireland welcomed all partners in their offices in Naas, Ireland. The first objective of the meeting was to discuss […]
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