School drop outs find new learning matching their talents and graduate with degrees under Talent Based Learning, invoking questions about traditional academic systems based on mere grades

There are people who may not have gone through formal education but are exceeding expectations in real life. Such people are seen as great businessmen or business-women, or researchers who produce innovation in villages without formal education.

They can also be great leaders who make their nations or continents a pride yet they do not have formal education. Their knowledge can be evaluated through a process known as Accreditation of Prior Experiential Learning (APEL). APEL generally refers to incidental prior learning which is unassessed.

Such learning may be gained through unstructured experiences, arising from leisure pursuits, family experiences and work. It also includes unassessed formal training courses. Certificates may or may not be available as evidence that the learning has taken place.

During APEL process, a portfolio of the candidate is developed professionally and the outcomes of the portfolios are equated with usual course modules or units. Such equation may result in exemptions of particular course units, whole course levels or the entire course (depending on the background portfolio of the candidate) hence direct award of bachelors, masters or doctoral degrees.

For cases where the candidate receives direct Credit transfer to bachelors or masters degrees or even doctoral programmes, he/she will demonstrate immense creative and innovation value based on inherent talents or gifts, laced with life and work experience. Our portfolio development programme will help you showcase what you’ve learned from professional work and on job-training, military experience, or open source learning from the web, and general life and work experience.