FHEC Communications Officer Epineri Rawalai

The Fiji Higher Education Commission is urging Tertiary Institutions to develop their Recognition of Prior Learning Policy.

FHEC Communications Officer Epineri Rawalai says the policy will enable skilled workers who have acquired working experience to have formal qualifications.

Rawalai says Monfort Boys Town in Lami is the first Higher Education Institution in the country that will be implementing RPL next year.

“Our nation will benefit in such a way that we will allow those people, experience people to have qualifications to have papers so that they can also have to opportunity to go and advance in that career field and as well as to have the opportunity and go out there into the region and overseas if they want to find work.”

Rawalai says the RPL will come at a cost that will be determined by the institution and not by FHEC.

Meanwhile, Samoa was the first in the region to develop their RPL policy.