Capacity of education and training systems to enable learners to:
- access and move among different pathways (programmes, levels) and systems;
- validate learning outcomes acquired in another system or in non-formal/informal settings.
Comment
- Permeability of systems can be improved by:
- modularising pathways and defining units of learning outcomes;
- establishing qualifications frameworks which create links between various qualifications, improving readability of qualifications within and between countries;
- setting credit systems;
- permeability is characterised by direction (vertical/horizontal), criteria for access (individual or collective), admission or exemption, level of formalisation (at institution or system levels).
Source
Cedefop, 2014.