Professional experience validation process at a national level

Long-life learning allows for workers´ career evolution, and can be achieved either through dedicated adults´ courses, or via professional experience. In this paper, we report on a project started four years ago with Orange-France Telecom (major Telco operator in France) which aims at delivering national diplomas on the basis of knowledge and proficiencies acquired through professional experience. We have designed the main lines of the process to guide employees from Orange-France Telecom over a full year, from an information session to a validation jury for their diploma. In the meantime, they participate in collective courses helping them to write a professional overview activity report, describing their acquired expertise during their professional life in line with the targeted diploma. Each participant is also individually tutored by a university professor. The jury outcome is then of three kinds: the diploma is delivered, or not, or only some units are granted. In this latter case, advice is given to achieve a full completion of the curricula. We here present the feedback from the first two years experiments.