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The Framework for Qualifications of the European Higher Education Area. Mogens Berg Chairman of the Bologna Working Group Vienna, 26 January 2006. Qualifications Framework: Bergen.
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The Framework for Qualifications of the European Higher Education Area Mogens Berg Chairman of the Bologna Working GroupVienna, 26 January 2006
Qualifications Framework: Bergen • We adopt the overarching framework for qualifications in the EHEA, comprising of three cycles (…), generic descriptors for each cycle based on learning outcomes and competences, and credit ranges in the first and second cycle. • We commit ourselves to elaborate national frameworks for qualifications compatible … by 2010, and to having started work on this by 2007
NQF and Bologna Framework • Bologna-Framework • Self certification • National Qualifications Framework • Accreditation or similar • National qualifications
Basic • Qualifications are national according to national legislation • Qualifications are articulated/located in national qualifications frameworks • The 45 national frameworks are linked together through an alignment to an overarching framework of the EHEA
Advices • The development and review process for producing good NQFs are most effective when they involve all relevant stakeholders • A NQF should indentify a clear nationally agreed set of purposes • NQF should explicitly link to academic standards and to quality assurance systems (institutional/national)
How overarching frameworks • Cycles • Descriptors of qualifications and learning outcomes • Credit ranges in ECTS
Alignment of NQF to the EHEA-framework • No external control but trust building • Minimum criteria for the verification that a NQF are compatible with the EHEA framework • Procedures for self-certification of compatibility • Role of Quality Assurance
Work Programme 2005-7 • Self-certification: 2 pilot projects (Ireland + Scotland • Survey of definitions of credits in national legislation (?) • Advise to Stocktaking • Follow the development of the EQF-LLL (descriptors)
Work Programme 2005-7 • Provide assistance to member states on NQF: • Organise a network of contact-persons • Regional meetings
Work Programme 2005-7 • Final report: • Criteria for self-certifications • Procedures for self-certification • Bologna Framework and EQF-LLL