Developing the skills of your staff
Validating acquired experience: VAE
INSA Lyon is authorized to grant all its engineering diplomas via "validation of acquired experience".
The engineering diploma granted by the VAE route is the same as that issued by the usual training route.
The criteria for evaluating skills acquired are of the same level as those used with normal students:
The skills required for each diploma are described in its skills repository.
Candidates must demonstrate via a dissertation and before a panel that the skills they have acquired correspond to the diploma reference.
More information : http://cdr.insa-lyon.fr/programmes/
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Definition: Skills validation
- A company procedure with a view to institutional recognition of acquired skills. Official document by which acquired skills are recognized. (Afnor-NFX 50- 750-1).
- Operation to assign a value to an individual's acquired skills as compared with a previously defined standard (certification) and according to a means described in advance. This operation is finalized by certification of this value, given by a competent authority authorized by the State. It results in the issuing of a certificate.
Source : www.vae.gouv.fr
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