Issues relating to learning accreditation in corporate university management

Abstract

This article considers the role of learning validation and accreditation systems in relation to the demand for more co‐creative quality assurance solutions in corporate and organisational learning management. It explores the need to emphasise the organisational demand side in the management of quality new learning by applying a more holistic development perspective. It looks at the subject of credit frameworks from the point of view of both providers and consumers of learning programmes and develops a more radical four dimensional management perspective that extends the reach of considerations beyond the two dimensions of academic and professional practice. It introduces a leadership‐inspired career‐based accreditation system that engages with the middle and upper tiers in organisational learning. It provides this as a basis for developing a methodology and a forward thinking guideline for learning portfolio practice and quality assurance accreditation management in the organisational setting.