ABSTRACT
In addition to the use of learning agreements within formalised undergraduate or postgraduate programmes, Anglia Polytechnic University has recognised the need to facilitate learning by full-time employees in the work place for the furtherance of their professional or career development while causing the minimum disruption to their normal work. Because all the University’s course schemes are credit-based, these learning agreements must also allow for credit-accumulation. Evidence of successful completion of the learning outcomes permits the award of academic credit which can be sanctioned either as a Certificate of Credit for the learning achieved or as a named award. The award, from a learning agreement outside an undergraduate or postgraduate course scheme, is made through the institution’s Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS), the Open Course Scheme, which is validated to approve any of the University’s named awards resulting from an individualised or negotiated programme of study.
