Researching the recognition of prior learning: international perspectives

This article is a review of the book Researching the recognition of prior learning: international perspectives. It considers that the book is not for the fainthearted. If you require a text which gives you a comparative perspective on the degrees of uptake and embeddedness of the recognition of prior learning (RPL) in six Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) member national higher education systems, this is the right compendium. It is also for those who labour at the coal face of further or higher education, mining the often latticed seams of ‘adult education’, ‘prior learning’, 15 ‘non-formal and informal learning’ and ‘experiential learning’.