Published: 2025-12-17

Editorial

Every Life Holds Value

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Invited Essays

Helping Refugee Youth: Experience of Yeomyung School in South Korea

Myungsook Cho
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The Learner's Voice at the Center: A New Validation Model Built on Personal Resources Management and Dialogical Validation

Ruud Duvekot
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Recognizing the Uncertified: Public RPL Practices for North Korean Refugees in South Korea

Dae Joong Kang, Seung Hyeop Lee
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Flexible Pathways into the German Labor Market

Martin Noack, Silja Erdsiek
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Bridging Borders Through Skill Recognition for Migrants in Mexico

Diego Piazza
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Recognizing the Stateless: A Dual-Narrative Reflection on Access to Higher Education through RPL for Refugees, Asylum Seekers, and Stateless People in South Africa

Rekha Rambharose
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Reflections on Indigenous Displacement and the Possibilities of PLAR

Lana Ray
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Inquiry (Peer-Reviewed)

The Role of RPL in Societal Reforms: A Case Study of Indian Construction Workers in the Wake of COVID-19

Subrata Bandyopadhyay, Pratik Dake
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Validation and Recognition of Professional Qualifications and Competencies Acquired Abroad: Criteria-Based Analysis of New and Existing Opportunities in Germany

Carolin Böse, Silvia Annen
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Recognition Through Prior Learning: Reducing ‘Mis-recognition’ of International Students in UK Higher Education

James Moran
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Reimagining PLAR that Honors All Adult Learners

Tenielle McLeod
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Practice Today

Labor Market Need is Not Enough: A Normative Claim

Noah Arney
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RVA-Readiness: A Conceptual Framework for National Recognition, Validation, and Accreditation Systems

Ruud Duvekot
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Credit for Prior Learning for Internationally Trained Professionals: Oksana’s Case in Chiropractic Health Careers

Charlotte Nitardy, Brooke Anttila-Escoto
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REGEN: REfugeesGENeration - AI Can Transform How We Recognize and Empower Refugees

Simone Ravaioli
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Recognition of Prior Learning in Egypt for Citizens and Migrants

Ossama Saleh
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Prior Learning Assessment Reflections of a Former Child Refugee

Hannah Temple
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Interviews

Beyond Formal Qualifications: An Interview with Per Andersson

Nan Travers, Alan Mandell
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You Can’t Forget the Person: An Interview with Deb Carr

Nan Travers, Alan Mandell
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Pathways for Learners: An Interview with Scott Hall

Nan Travers, Alan Mandell
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Opening Windows for Refugees, Migrants, and Returnees in Africa: An Interview with Br. John Njuguna

Catherine Wanjiru
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The Transformational Nature of our Work: An Interview with Karen Aceves, Amparo Diaz, and Guadalupe Pinto

Nan Travers, Alan Mandell
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Reviews

EUCEN: Pioneering Validation Pathways for Refugee and Migrant Inclusion in European Higher Education

Ruud Duvekot
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European Qualifications Passport for Refugees (EQPR)

Ruud Duvekot
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Resources

ARENA – Refugees and Recognition (Toolkit 3): An Erasmus+ Project

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Collective Action for Change

Svein Stølen, Marianne Knarud
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Community Needs Analysis with Refugees: Exploring Access and Barriers to Higher Education in Ireland

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Driving Canada: A Front Seat View of Immigration through Uber

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EQUAL – European Qualification: Refugees and Recognition

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From Counting to Cultivating Successful Participation: A Review of Access, Transfer, and Progression in Irish Education and Training

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Guidelines on Costing and Financing: Recognition of Prior Learning

Christine Hofmann
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International Terms for Recognition, Validation and Accreditation of Prior Learning: Comprehensive Reference Document

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Introduction to Resources: RPL for Refugees, Stateless, and Asylum Seekers in South Africa

Rekha Rambharose
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Making Fewer Strangers: Networking Networks

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Project 6: Recognition of Prior Learning Report

Deb Carr
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PROSPECTS: Partnership for Improving Prospects for Forcibly Displaced Persons and Host Communities

Christine Hofmann
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Recognition of Immigrant Professionals’ Prior Learning

Philipp Assinger
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Recommendation CM/Rec(2025)6 on Qualifications and Linguistic Competences of Refugees in Europe

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Skillsets in Transit: Understanding Recognition, Validation, and Accreditation of Learning Outcomes for Migrants and Refugees

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Social Inequality Contested: Prior Learning Assessment in the Context of Displacement

Lisa Unangst
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Toolkit for Recognition of Refugees’ Qualifications

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Announcements

Call for Contributors: PLAIO #10

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PLAIO Webinar: January 28, 2026

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Editorial Board

Editorial Board

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Advisory Board

Advisory Board

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