Prior learning
Give experience a language others can understand.
Explore prior learningLearning, skills & recognition
A perspective from Adam Wadi
Adam Wadi
Explore how experience becomes visible, how people keep learning at work and how skills can be understood across changing careers and education systems.
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Prior learning, workplace education & skills portfolios.
Explore the connections between the work you have done and the learning ahead.
Workplace learning
Turn everyday work into deliberate development.
Explore workplace learningSkills portfolios
Tell the story behind the evidence.
Explore skills portfoliosWho is Adam Wadi?
Adam Wadi is an RPL and vocational education consultant with a background in training, assessment and hospitality teaching. Through Wadi Education Consultancy, he supports RPL pathways, assessment resources and organisational capability. This journal connects that practical background with questions about learning and skills recognition.
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Browse all articlesDescribe transferable skills through real situations.
“Communication” and “leadership” are familiar labels, but they can mean very different things in different settings. To make a transferable skill understandable, describe a situation in which you used it.
Read articleAsk better questions about recognition across systems.
Recognition is a decision made for a particular purpose. Employment, admission to a course, credit towards study and professional registration may involve different organisations and different requirements.
Read articleKeep a learning record you will actually use.
A learning record does not need to capture every course, meeting or working day. Its purpose is to help you notice developing capability and remember the experiences that changed how you approach your work.
Read articleAsk for feedback on a specific moment.
“How am I doing?” is a difficult question to answer well. A more focused request gives a colleague something concrete to observe and discuss. Choose a recent situation and explain which part you would like to understand better.
Read articleWhat an unfinished project can teach you.
Not every valuable learning experience ends with a finished product. A project that changes direction or stops can still help you understand your judgement, technical approach or ability to work with others.
Read articleMake learning part of the career-change plan.
A change of role can reveal both familiar strengths and unfamiliar expectations. Begin by examining the work involved in the new direction rather than assuming that a course title alone explains what you need to learn.
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