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General Recommendation for the Award of Credit

This General Recommendation for the Award of Credit is published by the

Servicestelle Offene Hochschule Niedersachsen

in collabora-

tion with the project

Kompetenzbereich Anrechnung

at the Carl von Ossietzky University in Oldenburg.The compilation of this General

Recommendation occured in cooperation with the

Wolfgang Schulenberg-Institut für Bildungsforschung und Erwachsenenbildung (ibe)

. The

responsibility for the contents of this Recommendation for the Award of Credit is assumed by the

Kompetenzbereich Anrechnung.

Servicestelle Offene Hochschule

Niedersachsen

Operating as a not-for-profit organisa-

tion of the Land of Lower Saxony, the

Servicestelle Offene Hochschule Niedersachsen

in Hannover coordinates the opening of

the universities in Lower Saxony to new

target groups.The organisation supports

individuals with professional qualifica-

tion who are interested in taking up uni-

versity studies or further training. This

group holds - even without the univer-

sity-entrance diploma „Abitur“ - higher

education entrance requirements aqui-

red through completion of professional

education and training of at least three

years‘ duration and relevant professional

experience.

Furthermore, the

Servicestelle Offene Hoch-

schule Niedersachsen

pools and networks

the activities and counselling services

of the partners from universities, adult

education, chambers, trade unions, busi-

ness and employers‘ associations, and

the Land of Lower Saxony. The seven-

teen-member Supervisory Board of the

Servicestelle Offene Hochschule Niedersachsen,

comprising all important socio-political

actors, campaign for the further opening

of the higher education institutions in

Lower Saxony.

Kompetenzbereich

Anrechnung

As part of the model project

Offene Hoch-

schule Niedersachsen,

the Lower Saxonian

Ministry for Science and Culture promo-

tes the project

Kompetenzbereich Anrech-

nung

at the Carl von Ossietzky University

Oldenburg.

Central target of this project is the im-

provement of the collaboration between

institutions of higher education and

providers of adult education in Lower

Saxony. This is to be achieved through:

the compilation of general recom-

mendations for improving recogniti-

on and award of credit of advanced

training programmes,

the support of the providers of adult

education in the quality development

of their offerings,

the improvement of advanced

training through modularisation and

focus on learning outcomes.

Wolfgang Schulenberg-Institut

für Bildungsforschung und Er-

wachsenenbildung (ibe)

The

Wolfgang Schulenberg-Institut für Bil-

dungsforschung

und

Erwachsenenbildung

(

Wolfgang Schulenberg Institute of Edu-

cational Research and Adult Education

(ibe)

) was founded in 1986 by members

of the Carl von Ossietzky University Ol-

denburg and representatives of adult

education associations in Lower Saxony.

The institute considers itself as a research

and service centre at the interface of vo-

cational training and academic research.

Since the end of 2005, the institute is en-

gaged in the accreditation and award of

credit of learning outcomes of vocational

training for tertiary education program-

mes.

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