Title: Qualifications Frameworks: aims and functions Michael Graham
1Qualifications Frameworks aims and
functionsMichael Graham
230 ETF partner countries
Potential candidate countries Albania, Bosnia
-Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, Serbia
324 countries developing NQFs
Potential candidate countries Albania, Bosnia
-Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, Serbia
4ETF activities in the field of qualifications
- Operations in partner countries support to
partner countries in exploring the relevance of
NQF as tool for reform, facilitation of the
design phase - Studies research on NQFs development,
inventories - Linking EU policies to agenda in partner
countries - Increasingly focus is on building capacities for
implementation, and assisting countries to be in
control of their reforms in order to ensure
sustainable results
5ETF work with partner countries in 2011
- Country- specific activities in 16 countries
- Albania, Algeria, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and
Herzegovina, Croatia, Egypt, Georgia, Kosovo,
Lebanon, Morocco, Occupied Palestinian Territory,
Republic of Moldova, Russia, Serbia, Turkey,
Ukraine - Regional projects
- Pre-accession region Post2ndary VET Mutual
Learning EQF Conference Budapest - Eastern Partnership Transparency within Lifelong
Learning project - Mediterranean Regional dimension of
qualifications Social Partnership - Corporate activities
- Qualifications Platform Oct 2011 international
conference implementing qualifications frameworks
6Why Qualifications?
- Education and training are important for social
inclusion, employment and economic development - Quality is linked to relevance
- - Qualifications showing what people are able to
do (learning outcomes) - So that qualifications are trusted on the labour
market and open possibilities for further
learning
7Why Qualifications Frameworks?
- Classification of qualifications not new.
- But bringing together qualifications from
different sectors into one system - is new - Creating better linkages between qualifications
systems- e.g. HE to VET - making qualifications
comparable - But also bringing together different stakeholders
involved in the design and delivery of
qualifications - Strengthening the role of representatives from
the world of work and social partners - Link E and T to labour markets universal aim in
our partner countries.
8Why Qualifications Frameworks?
- NQFs contribute to LLL by
- - putting learner at centre
- - improving access, progression and transfer
- - promoting cooperation between stakeholders
- EQF and other transnational QFs
9QFs as a tool to improve qualifications systems
and qualifications
- Qualifications framework provide platform to
bring stakeholders into qualifications systems. - Qualifications Frameworks are framework of
qualifications the qualifications are central. - Reform is about the qualifications systems,
qualifications and qualifications frameworks
10Findings from our work
- Countries develop QFs in context of new VET/HE
policies - NQFs seem most useful as a generic tool, linked
with other approaches - Not one model, NQFs are highly context and
capacity-dependent - Capacity building and policy learning are central
to our approach
11Findings from our work
- Implementation about both technical and
social/institutional challenges - Impact depends also on quality of implementation
12Kosovos NQF
- Integrating, lifelong learning
- Kosovo ahead of most of its neighbours (and some
EU Member States) - Linking to EQF and Bologna Process