Note: There is a fee which is payable for this service. Currently, this fee is €300 if you wish to submit a portfolio on your own, or €3000 if you wish to work with a supervisor.

Section One: Applicant and Certificated Learning

Please complete the form with as much detail as possible about your prior formal learning. This will allow your prior learning to be assessed and help us to identify if any further information is required from you. If known, please indicate how much credit you think your prior learning can reasonably be used towards the Warnborough College program.

Date of award – Your prior learning must be  ‘current’, normally meaning completed within the last five years. If your learning was completed more than five years ago, you may be required to provide additional evidence that you have remained up to date in the subject area (e.g. your CV detailing recent work experience or professional development).

Certificate – It is very important that you are able to supply copies of certificates or transcripts you received. If you do not have these, then please provide an explanation separately. These do not have to be uploaded now but must go into your Portfolio.

Section Two: Additional Evidence

Additional evidence may include, for example, a full C.V., or a statement of how you have kept up-to-date through Continuous Professional Development (CPD). Also, please list any supporting evidence you are attaching with the form i.e. copies of certificates. This is to ensure that those assessing the claim can be sure they have received all of the evidence provided.

Section Three: Mapping

Provide brief details of how you think your previous learning maps onto the learning outcomes expected of the Warnborough College award for which you are seeking APCL. Please reference the syllabus or program specification of your completed qualification for the relevant learning outcomes. This will give us a clear understanding of your prior learning when we assess your claim. Use the following table to map your learning.

For APCL
Provide evidence in the form of learning outcomes. Module descriptors including the aims, content and outcomes are available from the Registry, Program Director, or APL Advisor. Hours of study, course content, assignments and assessments with results should be included where possible.

For APEL
For experiential learning,  submit evidence of work-based and other non-formal learning which contributes to meeting the learning outcomes of claimed modules.  Submit a document outlining the comparisons of learning outcomes using the examples below as a template:

Example 1: APL for certificated course

Additional Supporting Statements

a) I have trained senior managers in the company to understand the employment relationship and I attach a brochure of a training course showing that I am the presenter.

b) I enclose (confidential material) a strategic plan I put forward to avert a strike a year ago and some minutes from regular meetings with the Union that I facilitate. I also attach some minutes from Personnel meetings specifically related to conflict situations.

c) I believe that document ‘iii’ submitted as above and the minutes of 4th November 2019 show that I can employ negotiation techniques successfully.