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By Rob Paddock and Natasa Meli<\/em><\/p>\n

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While summative High School examinations are universally used for making evidence-based admission systems to college programmes, it is also widely recognised that they are inappropriate proxies for college preparedness for candidates who have not followed conventional educational pathways and \u2013 particularly \u2013 for those who have been in work and are returning to education.<\/p>\n

In January 2015, the University of Cape Town (UCT) and GetSmarter collaborated to deliver the first online presentation of \u201cFoundations of Project Management\u201d \u2013 the first of four topics making up UCT\u2019s Advanced Diploma in Business Project Management.<\/p>\n

In their White Paper, Rob and Natasa used this opportunity to compare performance details of students who were admitted with traditional prior qualifications with those who had been admitted through the South African Required Prior Learning (RPL) national policy process.<\/p>\n

Click on the image below to download this Smarter White Paper.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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How online analytics test assumptions about admissions policies. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":257,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[124,120],"article-format":[],"class_list":["post-131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research-hub","tag-education","tag-systems-technology"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nRecognising Prior Learning - GetSmarter Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.getsmarter.com\/blog\/recognising-prior-learning\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Recognising Prior Learning\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"How online analytics test assumptions about admissions policies.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.getsmarter.com\/blog\/recognising-prior-learning\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"GetSmarter Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2017-02-09T09:57:51+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2019-11-27T06:29:30+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.getsmarter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Why-Learning-Analytics-Matter_THUMB.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"500\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"500\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Shameel Mohanlal\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"GetSmarter Staff\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.getsmarter.com\\\/blog\\\/recognising-prior-learning\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.getsmarter.com\\\/blog\\\/recognising-prior-learning\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Shameel Mohanlal\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.getsmarter.com\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/527df7e5676f2bfa7c943e1653764bff\"},\"headline\":\"Recognising Prior Learning\",\"datePublished\":\"2017-02-09T09:57:51+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2019-11-27T06:29:30+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.getsmarter.com\\\/blog\\\/recognising-prior-learning\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":149,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.getsmarter.com\\\/blog\\\/recognising-prior-learning\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.getsmarter.com\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2017\\\/06\\\/Why-Learning-Analytics-Matter_THUMB.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Education\",\"Systems & technology\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Research Hub\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.getsmarter.com\\\/blog\\\/recognising-prior-learning\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.getsmarter.com\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2017\\\/06\\\/Why-Learning-Analytics-Matter_THUMB.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.getsmarter.com\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2017\\\/06\\\/Why-Learning-Analytics-Matter_THUMB.jpg\",\"width\":500,\"height\":500,\"caption\":\"Why-Learning-Analytics-Matter_THUMB\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.getsmarter.com\\\/blog\\\/recognising-prior-learning\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.getsmarter.com\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Blog\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.getsmarter.com\\\/blog\"}]}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Recognising Prior Learning - 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