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Because of high students and labour mobility across the globe; it becomes important that national and global academic credit transfer in post-schooling education is well defined, easy to understand and reciprocated. The European community harmonised its credit transfer through the Bologna Process of 1999 to address connectivity of 46 countries. Credit transfer across different post-schooling institutional types, i.e., vertical transfers, got better defined in the post 2008 reforms in Australia.
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Netswera, F., Wilson, K., Cassidy, N., Makombe, G. (2017). Sustainability of Higher Education Credit Systems and Transfer Structures Experiences from Australia, South Africa and the United States of America. In: Maringe, F., Ojo, E. (eds) Sustainable Transformation in African Higher Education. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-902-7_7
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