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Our FREE Webinar on Saturday 27th March 2021 at 10:00 am SAST.

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During your lifetime, you will have acquired various skills, competencies, and experiences. This learning could have taken place at work, during short courses, or from community work in a relevant field. It could even have taken place in the home such as caring for children and the elderly, managing meal planning, and coordinating events. This informal learning is valuable even if it has never been formally assessed.

The process that enables the formal assessment of informal learning is called recognition of prior learning (RPL). In South Africa, RPL is fairly widespread at the vocational level (especially in the private provider sector) but it is not fully utilised at the Higher Education (HEI) level. There are ‘islands of RPL excellence’ but most HE Institutions in South Africa use RPL for access, but not often for subject exemption.

Chartall Business College is an accredited Further Education and SETA accredited provider with a long history in RPL provision in the vocational sector. Over the years, Chartall Business College has RPL-ed in the region of 10 000 people for the award of a full or partial qualification, using their informal learning as the basis for the award of these qualifications. Chartall Business College is now a Council on Higher Education (CHE) accredited provider for a Bachelor of Business Administration degree and we are applying our RPL knowhow to higher education.

The CHE has strict rules on RPL in higher education and no more than 50% of the credits can be exempted through an RPL process, but this means you could complete your degree in half the time if you have sufficient and relevant workplace learning that can be used in place of formal study and examinations for the selected subjects.

Chartall Business College is hosting an information session on RPL and how you can maximise your workplace learning to be exempt for up to 50% of the credits on the Chartall BBA degree. Our session was on Saturday 27th March at 10:00, hosted by Dr. Karen Deller.

Dr. Deller is both an RPL researcher and practitioner in South Africa and she will guide the successful RPL candidates through the Chartall BBA process. So, if you want to earn a degree in half the allocated time, at a lower cost, and you have extensive and relevant workplace experience, watch the recording of this session using the link below.

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Karen Deller

(DLitt (HRM), MA (HRM), BA (Hon – Industrial Psychology)

Karen is one part entrepreneur, two parts passionate-developer-of-working-adults, one part adventurer & scuba diver, one part mother & wife & daughter. Which is too many parts – but what does one leave out?

She has been involved in adult education and training for over 30 years and the past 20 have been spent theorising about, writing about and actually doing recognition of prior learning (RPL). Her focus is on RPL in the workplace for formal credentialing, and this was the basis of the research that saw her awarded a DLitt by the University of Johannesburg in 2007.

Karen trains on a number of full and partial qualifications, from subjects on the BBA degree to short courses in sales and human resources management. She always draws on her many years of experience and shares many personal stories and lessons.

Karen subscribes to the sage advice of Dr Seuss when advising RPL candidates and her learners:
“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go...”

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    2 Comments

  1. Laa'iqah
    27/03/2021

    What a well-considered plan to uplift people on whose backs the economy has historically been shaped. Thank you for this application of a critical piece of legislation. Thank you Dr Deller and Chartall Business College.

  2. Jeanette Hall
    30/03/2021

    Thank you so much for the informative meeting Karen (Dr Deller).
    Its a wonderful opportunity to complete an excellent degree.
    This opportunity is something few should loose.
    Having been fortunate enough to have learnt the RPL process through Dr Deller, I can highly recommend taking up the challenge.
    Kind regards
    Jeanette