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0000-0002-4718-7306
Current Organisations
RMIT University
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University of Toronto
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Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 30-05-2019
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 04-03-2021
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 13-06-2021
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 14-06-2021
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 29-03-2020
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 14-10-2021
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 10-02-2021
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-2022
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-06-2020
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-08-2022
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 03-08-2021
DOI: 10.1007/S10734-021-00742-3
Abstract: This paper argues that micro-credentials are gig credentials for the gig economy. Micro-credentials are short competency-based industry-aligned units of learning, while the gig economy comprises contingent work by in idual ‘suppliers’. Both can be facilitated by (often the same) digital platforms, and both are underpinned by social relations of precariousness in the labour market and in society. They are mutually reinforcing and each has the potential to lify the other. Rather than presenting new opportunities for social inclusion and access to education, they contribute to the privatisation of education by unbundling the curriculum and blurring the line between public and private provision in higher education. They accelerate the transfer of the costs of employment preparation, induction, and progression from governments and employers to in iduals. Micro-credentials contribute to ‘disciplining’ higher education in two ways: first by building tighter links between higher education and workplace requirements (rather than whole occupations), and through ensuring universities are more ‘responsive’ to employer demands in a competitive market crowded with other types of providers. Instead of micro-credentials, progressive, democratic societies should seek to ensure that all members of society have access to a meaningful qualification that has value in the labour market and in society more broadly, and as a bridge to further education. This is a broader vision of education in which the purpose of education is to prepare in iduals to live lives they have reason to value, and not just in the specifics required of particular jobs.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 30-03-2020
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