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may find it insufficient to meet their immediate needs when designing courses in higher education. PAU L T ROW L E R Lancaster University, UK Good Practice in the Accreditation of Prior Learning by Lovemore Nyatanga, Dawn Forman and Jane Fox. London: Cassell, 1998. ISBN 0304346500 (hbk) 144 pp. 45. 0304346519 (pbk). 16.99. The accreditation of prior learning and/or experiential learning (APL/APEL) has become an aspect of the daily routines of many staff working in post-compulsory education. Given the American origins of this process, it is very refreshing to encounter a book which explores it from a British perspective and does so in a most thorough and impressive manner. There are two main sections in the book. The first consists of five chapters which focus on aspects of theory and method; the two chapters in the second section are practical examples of APL in action. The opening chapter explores the origins and developments of APL in the USA. Its move to the UK is a good example of what social policy theorists describe as 'policy transfer'. The appearance of APL in the UK is charted in a table of significant events and in an outline of the key