Interesting HEPI blog this morning presenting the case for #microcredentials#LifelongLearningwww.hepi.ac.uk/2024/08/22/m...

Microcredential courses for re-skilling and up-skilling - HEPI

Microcredentials offer a flexible approach to upskilling and reskilling, enabling employees to achieve early exit degrees while supporting local economies and widening access to education.

These issues aren't insurmountable, but we need a top-down agreed framework (OfS/IfATE/Skills England?). A while back I wrote this (johnnyrich.com/the-lifelong...) about how microcredentials might, with capstone modules, stack up into degrees, including, in a pick-n-mix, ‘general degrees’.

The lifelong learning buffet needs nutritional oversight - Johnny Rich

The lifelong learning buffet needs nutritional oversight Johnny Rich