Supported by the Department for Education Lifelong Learning and Skills
A Value Added Toolkit to support the Recording and Recognition of Progress and Achievement (RARPA) in Non-accredited learning
Share your experience
This Toolkit is under development by NIACE Dysgu Cymru supported by a Project Advisory Group and a Practitioners' Development Group. Should you wish to contribute materials and/or exemplars to the site for sharing with colleagues please e mail to barrie@niacedc.org.uk.
Project Advisory Group
Alison Bryant (DELLS), Lynne El Khatib (Community Learning Wales), Helen Saunders (fforwm), Graham Price (WEA), Linda Howells (Estyn), Ferenc Blisko (WCVA), Jim Barnaville (CDC), Helen Williams (CyMAL)
Project Development Team
Nigel Horrocks, Barrie Grant, Bill Roberts
E-mail Support Group
Have you got a RARPA problem, looking for a solution? Circulate it around our e mail group - someone might have the answer!
Just follow this link and you will be able to subscribe/unsubscribe and your question will be circulated to colleagues - you might just get the answer that you are looking for.
This e mail group is moderated by Barrie Grant for NIACE Dysgu Cymru.
Purpose of the Toolkit
NIACE DC has been commissioned by DELLS to research and develop a best practice tool kit consisting of guidance and evaluation techniques to be used to assist in measuring the value added benefits for learners of learning which falls beyond the scope of qualification or credit-based outcomes and which is not accredited by any specific learning organisation or learning awards body.
The main beneficiaries of the Project will be Adult Community Learning providers (“ACL”) in Wales in the first instance, since ACL incorporates a significant element of non-accredited learning. In the longer term, the relevance of the tool kit for measuring outcomes of non-accredited learning in the context of other providers will be explored but this is outside the scope of the current Project.
