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Students may be admitted with specific credit in respect of not more than 50% of the
programme except that they may be given specific credit for the whole of a PGDip already
gained in a subject cognate to the Masters programme being entered.
1.4 Accreditation of prior (experiential) learning (AP(E)L)
Applications for admission with prior learning or prior experiential learning must be submitted
to the special admissions panel AP(E)L Applicant Committee using the MMU AP(E)L Claim
Decision Form and will be considered on an individual basis. The guidelines for AP(E)L
assessors are given in the Scheme for the Admission of Students with Advanced Standing
following Accreditation of Prior Learning will be followed.
Istituto Marangoni respects and works within Manchester Metropolitan University’s scheme for
the admission of students with advanced standing following accreditation of prior learning,
approved by the academic board, June 2005.
APL; accreditation of prior learning (certificated)
APEL; accreditation prior experiential learning refers to learning achieved outside the
recognised educational or training systems; it will not, therefore, be certificated.
This scheme is to be used for the accreditation of prior learning of applicants seeking
admission with advanced standing to a MMU validated programme, either undergraduate or
taught postgraduate, at the institute.
1.4.1 AP(E)L Applicant Committee
The formal mechanism for the operation of APL & APEL at Istituto Marangoni: Campus
Directors of Education will be the committee coordinator for their campus AP(E)L Applicant
Committee and will report to the Group Director of Education all issues involving APL and
APEL. The committee will comprise of Programme Leader, Key tutor and / support tutor, IM
Partner Link Tutor, and in the case of postgraduate study the Master’s Coordinator.
1.4.2 Procedure
Applications for advanced standing in respect of an entire level of a programme must normally
be made prior to the student commencing the programme concerned.
Applications for advanced standing in respect of part of the level of a programme will normally
be made no later than the end of the student’s first unit of study.
Prior learning, whether certificated or experiential, accredited under this scheme shall be
recorded on the student’s transcript of learning and Diploma Supplement.
A student seeking to transfer from a point on one programme of study within or outside the
Institute to the same point on another within the Institute where it can be shown that the two
programmes are equivalent in terms of the curriculum and learning outcomes shall apply to do
so in writing to the relevant Campus Director. The student shall provide such information to
the Istituto Marangoni AP(E)L Applicant Committee (to the appropriate campus) as may be
required for a decision on the transfer to be made. A record of a transfer and of the evidence
on which it was approved shall be kept on the student’s file and included in the Diploma
Supplement.
1.4.3 Exceptions:
It is not appropriate to the subject area, the academic course content or incremental learning
structure of the Master’s courses to consider applicants with experiential prior learning (non
certificated APEL) for entry after the normal beginning of a postgraduate course.
The AP(E)L Applicant Committee would consider admission entry at Pg Cert level in the case
of certificated APL. It is necessary to respect that a maximum of 50% of the course can be
APL, as stated in the MMU regulations.
Where similar learning outcomes with grades could be mapped against the appropriate
content of the validated programme and unit specifications applicants could be considered for
interim entry but final grades should be based on marks achieved during the validated Istituto
Programme Specification: Date: November 2011
Author: A.P.Roberts
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