Title:
Micro-credentials and credit transfer: Giving credit where credit is due
Author:
Professor Mary Bishop
MJB Consulting (Former Director of Learning ACCA Global, Visiting Chair Staffordshire University
Published:
Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI), 5 February 2021
From the article:
2021 started with a whirlwind of reports – long awaited and key to the sector moving forwards. The publications being compressed into a short time frame, within the disrupted context of a pandemic, is challenging, but the issues are fundamental and in many ways collective responses to different aspects of the same questions. One area still out for consultation is the Higher Education Credit Framework for England (HECF). As a former education leader of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), one of the biggest professional bodies globally, and currently working across higher education and professional education, much of my focus is on designing integrated ways of working, including programmes and qualifications. The consultation on the HECF offers a way to respond to many of the themes emerging across the professional and higher education landscapes by looking at how we build qualifications. The current HECF Qualifications and Credit Frameworks itself is not generally the limiting factor, rather it is the way it is used which, in the UK particularly, has often been driven largely by funding requirements.
The workplace continues to evolve at pace and a growing skills gap has been much debated and is the focus of the Government’s recent paper Skills for Jobs: Lifelong Learning for Opportunity and Growth.