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Permeability

Permeability of education and training systems

Capacity of education and training systems to enable learners to:

access and move among different pathways (programmes, levels) and systems;
validate learning outcomes acquired in another system or in non-formal/informal settings.

Comment

- Permeability of systems can be improved by:

modularising pathways and defining units of learning outcomes;
establishing qualifications frameworks which create links between various qualifications, improving readability of qualifications within and between countries;
setting credit systems;

- permeability is characterised by direction (vertical/horizontal), criteria for access (individual or collective), admission or exemption, level of formalisation (at institution or system levels).

Source

Cedefop, 2014

Source:
Cedefop, Glossary. Terminology of European education and training policy, (last accessed 10/2024)
Cedefop, Glossary. Terminology of European education and training policy, (last accessed 10/2024)
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