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Mireille Pouget

UK
  • 1999-2006: Development Officer, Wider Access & Social Inclusion, University of Stirling
  • Current: Educational Research Consultant & Visiting Academic, University of Stirling
Interests/Expertise: 

Adult education and lifelong learning
Recognition and validation of prior experiential learning (or APEL)
Community regeneration and learning regions
European policies on lifelong learning
Project Management

Recent research/consultancy: 
  • Workshop “A Learning City: Toulouse’s Future? The role of the council and its employees” to train team of researchers for European project: Lilara (Learning in Local and Regional Authorities):  
  • Main speaker at seminar for academic staff, assessors and Estonian Ministry of Education officials on the “development of common principles of APEL”, Tartu & Tallinn
  • 2005-07: Main speaker and workshop leader at various EULLearN seminars on APEL (European Universities Lifelong Learning Network), Estonia, France, Italy. Author in project book.
  • 2001-04: European ALPINE project, (Adult Learning and Participating in Education, increasing adult education in European universities): thematic workgroup leader, co-editor of book, dissemination conference host.  
  • 2003-2005 Management role in European VaLEx project (Valuing Learning from Experience): action research project on the Recognition of prior (Informal) Learning (RPL).
  • June 2002: training seminars for CEPROFS (European Training Centre for Managers of European Continuing Education Organisation) Limerick, Ireland
Recognitions, positions, memberships: 
  • 1971-1975: University of Provence, Aix-en-Provence,Licence-ès-Lettres (BA) in English Literature & English Linguistics
  • 1979: Napier University, Edinburgh: Post Graduate Diploma in Careers Guidance
  • 1994: University of Strathclyde: Teaching Qualification in Further Education (TQFE)
  • 2000: Master in Education, University of Stirling (MEd)
  • 2003–09: Doctorate in Education (EdD) University of Stirling: research on the processes involved in the validation des acquis de l’expérience (VAE or RPL) in a French university.
  • 2007- 09: Consultant on OBSERVAL European Observatory for the Validation of Non-Formal and Informal Learning for EUCEN (European Universities Continuing Education Network)
  • 2007: Member of ADMEE-Europe (L’Association pour le Développement des Méthodologies d'Evaluation en Education en Europe) and of its working group on RPL: rapporteur for Geneva Symposium 2008
  • 1999-2006: Founding member of: the Scottish Network on Access and Participation; the East of Scotland Wider Access Forum now the South East Forum
  • 2003-06: Chair of CAMPUS: created region-wide partnership for school project to encourage pupils from low participation areas to consider HE.
  • 2004-2006: Member of: National University Network for Asylum Seekers; Glasgow Accreditation Group for AS and Refugees
  • 1985-1999 Lecturer and Senior Lecturer in Community & Economic Development and Social Sciences, Lauder College (Further Education) Fife
  • 1980-1985: Careers Adviser,Fife Regional Council, Education Department
Selected publications: 
  • Pouget, M. (2006) ‘Pedagogical and Social Aspects of APEL’ in Corradi, C., Valk, A., Van der Kamp, M. (Eds) Making LLL societies a reality: Recognition of formal, non-formal and in-formal learning in European universities. University of Tartu  http://www.eullearn.net/
  • Pouget, M. (2006) ‘représentations et traductions dans la validation des acquis de l’expérience en France’Proceedings of ADMEE Europe 19e Colloque, « L’évaluation au 21e siècle : vers de nouvelles formes, modélisations et pratiques de l’évaluation ? » Luxembourg, September 2006. at http://jemacs.uni.lu/index.php/JEMACS/article/viewFile/101/101  Accessed 10/09/07
  • Mark, R., Pouget, M., Thomas, E. (2004) (Eds) Adult in Higher Education: learning from experience in the wider Europe. Peter Lang Pub. http://www.qub.ac.uk/alpine/ALPINE/book.htm
  • Pouget, M., Osborne, M. J. (2004) 'Accreditation or validation of prior experiential learning: knowledge and savoirs in France and Britain, a different perspective?'
  • Studies in Continuing Education, Vol. 26, No. 1, 45 – 65
  • Pouget, M., Lawley, H. (2004) ‘Action for socially excluded - at risk of social exclusion – groups’. The ALPINE Manual of good practice. Introductory paper, case studies’. CD compilations. Tartu University Multimedia Centre. Available at http://www.qub.ac.uk/alpine/ALPINE/5_1_a.htm
 

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