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Title: Qualifications Frameworks: aims and functions Michael Graham


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Qualifications Frameworks aims and
functionsMichael Graham
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30 ETF partner countries
Potential candidate countries Albania, Bosnia
-Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, Serbia
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24 countries developing NQFs
Potential candidate countries Albania, Bosnia
-Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, Serbia
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ETF 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

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ETF 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

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Why 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

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Why 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.

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Why 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

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QFs 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

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Findings 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

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Findings from our work
  • Implementation about both technical and
    social/institutional challenges
  • Impact depends also on quality of implementation

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Kosovos NQF
  • Integrating, lifelong learning
  • Kosovo ahead of most of its neighbours (and some
    EU Member States)
  • Linking to EQF and Bologna Process
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