Eduvos
Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL)
Certification Centre.
What is the RPLCC?
Turn Your Experience into Recognition.
The Eduvos Recognition of Prior Learning Certification Centre (RPLCC) offers RPL for Career Progression, a powerful way to transform your work, life, and learning experience into formal recognition, without having to repeat what you may already know.
Even if you’ve never completed a qualification, your skills and knowledge matter. Through our structured RPL process, we assess and acknowledge your learning, gained through work, short courses, or incomplete studies, with an RPL(Recognition of Prior Learning) Certificate, a formal stamp of recognition issued by Eduvos, one of South Africa’s top private higher education institutions.
The Eduvos RPL Certification Centre is underpinned by South Africa's national Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) policies and our RPL Certificate is designed to open doors to opportunity, confidence, and recognition where it’s long been overdue.
The Benefits of Choosing the RPL Certification Centre.
Advance Without Starting Over
If you’ve built your career through hands-on experience or unfinished studies, RPL helps you keep moving forward; there’s no need to go back to square one.
Unlock Career Opportunities
An Eduvos RPL Certificate can boost your career, helping you access new roles, promotions, or industry recognition.
Education Pathways
Use your certificate to access new learning opportunities at Eduvos.
Validation
Skills and knowledge gained through experience are formally acknowledged by a trusted name in higher education.
Flexibility
The RPL process is designed to work around your schedule, you can continue working, no classroom attendance required.
Affordability
Certification for your existing skills cost less than a formal qualification.
How the RPL Process Works:
Our RPL for Career Progression, is designed with you in mind - flexible, supportive, and outcome driven.
See if you Qualify
To ensure you qualify for Recognition of your Prior Learning, please complete our survey below.
Submit Your Experience
Use our user-friendly RPL tool to share details of your work experience, prior learning, short courses, or incomplete qualifications.
We Review and Validate
Our RPL team will assess your submission and verify the information you’ve provided. We may ask for supporting documents, references, or a brief interview.
Receive Your RPL Certificate
If your experience meets the criteria, you’ll receive your official RPL Certificate, verified by Eduvos and aligned with relevant NQF standards.
Next Steps
Use your RPL certificate to access further studies at Eduvos, strengthen job applications and gain recognition in your industry.
Work Readiness Programme
The Eduvos Work Readiness Programme (WRP) is designed for candidates who have had limited or no exposure to working environments.
- Our Work Readiness Programme (WRP) will provide a basic level of assurance to a workplace that a candidate is work ready. This programme is especially applicable to students that have entered studies and not completed, graduates, school leavers and first time job seekers.
- Bridging the gap between academic learning and professional expectations, helping candidates transition smoothly into employment.
- RPL Certification Center will provide recognition of the value of the skill that is created through the Work Readiness Programme - Certifying the existing skill of the individual.
Benefits of the Work Readiness Programme
Higher Productivity
Graduates enter the workplace ready to contribute from day one, equipped with practical and soft skills honed through real-world preparation. This means quicker onboarding and seamless integration.
Improved Employee Retention
Work-ready employees are better equipped to meet workplace challenges and expectations, leading to increased confidence and reduced staff turnover.
Reduced Skills Gap
The programme helps employers access talent that understands current workflows, tools, and industry demands. It connects academic learning with real-world needs.
Employer Benefits
Our Work Readiness Programme supports employers in meeting their Workplace Skills Development Plans, Annual Training Reports (ATRs), and Skills Audits, contributing to broader national development goals.
Stronger Talent Pipeline
Shape future employees through mentorship, internships, and hands-on learning. Early exposure builds loyalty and aligns with skills and company goals, bringing new perspectives and digital influence.
RPL Certification You Can Trust
Upon completion, candidates receive a formal RPL Certificate, acknowledged across all Eduvos campuses and recognised by partner institutions nationwide.
Recruitment Skills Audit
Our Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) Recruitment Skills Audit supports employers in making informed hiring or promotion decisions by evaluating the real-world experience and skills of potential candidates, even if they don’t hold formal academic credentials.
The Recruitment Skills Audit services are customised to the unique needs of each employer. Please contact us for a quote.
- You send us the job specifications. Share the qualification criteria or learning outcomes required for the role you’re recruiting for.
- If your candidate does not hold a formal qualification, we use RPL principles to map and match your shortlist or candidate’s work experience against the outcomes of the qualification you need.
- Receive a Statement of Achievement (SoA). We identify any gaps between what your candidate knows and what they are required to know. This allows you to make an informed decision when hiring new employees. Employers are provided with a detailed SoA feedback report so that you can make an informed decision when hiring new employees
- Whether the candidate has the skills and experience to perform the role.
- Which areas, if any, require gap closure training to meet the full qualification requirements.
- Identifies which on-the-job (OJT) areas the new hire may need support or upskilling in.
- Helps spot potential candidates for long term talent retention and succession planning.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
The National Policy for the implementation of Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) defines it as ; the principles and processes through which the prior knowledge and skills of a person are made visible, mediated, and assessed for the purposes of alternative access and admission, recognition and certification, or further learning and development.
The Eduvos Recognition of Prior Learning Certification Centre (RPLCC) is a centre that formally acknowledges, validates and certifies the partially completed study or skills of adult learners with significant work experience, unlocking new employment opportunities and enabling career progression.
At Eduvos, we offer two RPL pathways, each designed to recognise your prior learning and experience, and help you progress toward your academic or career goals: Academic RPL - ( Degree Pathway ) and RPL for Career Progression - (non-Degree Pathway).
Academic RPL is managed by the Academic Department/Faculty and focuses on RPL for access (admission) into further studies or Credit Accumulation and Transfer (CAT);for awarding credits toward an unfinished qualification that can be recognised toward another qualification for study.
In contrast, RPL for career progression is facilitated through the Recognition of Prior Learning Certification Centre (RPLCC) to validate prior experience for employment and career advancement purposes.
If you don’t want to continue with any formal studies, but you do want your knowledge , skills and real-world experience checked, assessed, and verified against official National Qualifications Framework (NQF) standards, the RPL Certification Centre (RPLCC) provides you with a certificate to confirm this after completion of our RPL for Career Progression programme.
Your competence is acknowledged and valued across Eduvos campuses and partners and allows for your existing skills to make you eligible for consideration with industry employment opportunities, promotions, job placements, recruitment and bridges the gap between informal learning and formal recognition
Our team conducts preliminary checks on your application for completeness and correctness to determine your readiness for RPL.
A full list of required documents is included in the application submission pack. This typically includes your CV, academic transcripts, and evidence of work experience or prior learning.
Yes, In order to apply for RPL you have to be 23 years of age or older with at least three years' current, relevant working experience aligned with the qualification you want recognition against. Prior learning should have been acquired in one or more of the following ways: workplace learning, informal study for recreational/personal interest purposes, company/industry based training, working with experts, or life experience.
RPL is about demonstrating your proven competencies gained over a period of time, against the outcomes and standards of a specific qualification.
Yes. The RPL Certificate is issued by Eduvos and is recognised within our network and among corporate partners who understand the value of experiential learning.
Absolutely. This is exactly the type of experience the RPLCC is designed to acknowledge.
RPL is a process not a shortcut, its success depends on your commitment to gathering and submitting the required evidence, as agreed upon in a personalised assessment plan with your RPL assessors.
Your knowledge, skills and competencies will be assessed by our RPL Assessors based on the relevant evidence you submit. This may be a challenge exam, an interview, a work-related project, or a Portfolio of Evidence (which contains records of your experience, knowledge and skills). You will be given further guidelines for each of the assessment options if your RPL application is successful.
If you are found to be 'competent', in that you meet the learning outcomes for the module, you will be notified accordingly by the RPL Centre.
If you are found to be 'not yet competent' in a certain learning outcome, you may either be requested to do be re-assessed at a later date, or you will be advised to complete “gap closure modules” or follow the traditional route and enrol for the study of certain modules.