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Linking National & Sectoral Qualifications Frameworks & Systems to EQF

Linking National & Sectoral Qualifications Frameworks & Systems to EQF. 17 februari 2006 – Rita Dunon Flemish Community - Belgium Education and Training Policy Project Ministry of Education, Ministry of Labour and Ministry of Culture. About?. Thinkings Insights Problems Discussions

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Linking National & Sectoral Qualifications Frameworks & Systems to EQF

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  1. Linking National & Sectoral Qualifications Frameworks & Systems to EQF 17 februari 2006 – Rita Dunon Flemish Community - Belgium Education and Training Policy Project Ministry of Education, Ministry of Labour and Ministry of Culture

  2. About? • Thinkings • Insights • Problems • Discussions • Proposals

  3. Achieving Qualifications

  4. First step – september 2005 • Political mandate for the development and the implementation of a Flemish Qualifications Framework in the context of a cooperation between Education, Training and Work and the Social-cultural sector. • Initiate the national process (methodology, strategy, role of stakeholders) • Compare the concept for a National Qualifications Framework with the EQF • Both processes can be done simultaneous • Striving for maximal coherence

  5. Questions

  6. Questions: Qualification, Qualification structure? • Content? • Relationship with • training programmes • Certificates • Job profiles • How to design qualifications? • Range of qualifications?

  7. Questions: NQF - Objectives • Transparancy in qualifications (national and international)? • Transfer? • Mobility? • Civil (social) effect?

  8. Questions/ NQF – Structure • Take decisions on • Levels? How many? Where does the qualifications framework start? • Level descriptors - Learning outcomes? • Credits? • Decide on the range of qualifications • National qualifications • Sectoral qualifications • Others?

  9. Answers • Second step: november 2005 • Third step: february 2006

  10. Qualification • Validaded whole of knowledge, insight, skills and attitudes and/or competences. • Validation proces (recognition by an official organisation) • For some: a certificate of the Flemish Community

  11. Qualification structure • Overview of qualifications • All qualifications achieved in different settings of learning (formal, non-formal and informal) • Not just about qualifications one can achieve in education but also about sectoral qualifications and the qualifications or company qualifications. • Overarching qualifications framework for Flanders

  12. Objective: Transparency • More transparency on the content of qualifications • Striving for a better view on the multiplicity of qualifications • To make it possible to compare qualifications ( national and international) and to link them to each other

  13. Transparency (1)

  14. Transparency (2)

  15. Objectives: Mobility/Flexibility • Many ways to achieve a qualification • No dead ends in de qualification structure • Going from one qualification to another • Recognizing prior learning • Stimulate ways for dual learning

  16. Objectives Civil (social) effect • Insight in the recognition of qualifications • For the labour market and in society • national and international

  17. Objectives: civil effect

  18. Ojectives of the NQF • Direct objectives: directly associated with the NQF, result of NQF • Indirect objectives: not a result of the NQF but associated with other actions: common principles, instruments

  19. Flemish Qualification Framework • Design a framework: • Levels • Define the number of levels: 8 levels • Allocate a level to a qualification: How? • Describe learning outcomes – leveldescriptors (see next) • Credits • Methods for defining the amount of credits to qualifications • Methods to allocate credits to levels

  20. QualificationFramework (first draft)

  21. Credits • Quantify learning outcomes • Volume of learning outcomes (constant) • Valuation of learning outcomes by credits • Method (way) to allocate credits

  22. Legal arrangements? • Qualification framework • Decree • Contents (framework components) , definitions • Procedure for the validation of qualifications • Role of stakeholders and participants • How?

  23. Qualifications • Every qualification will be allocated to a level of the generic framework • Qualifications will be situated to one another

  24. Criteria for qualifications • Learning outcomes (level) • Common reference (vocational profiles, study profiles…) • Volume (credits)

  25. Legal arrangements • Ordinance of the Flemish Government

  26. Matching NQF and EQF • Consultation on the EQF and the development of the FQF can be done at the same time; • Matching will be done on levels and learning outcomes; • Linking EQF and FQF can give very useful (experienced) information for the consultation process, usefull for guidance on linking in other countries.

  27. Differences in the exercises for the NQF and the consultation document on EQF? • Levels: same number of levels, no use of sublevels • Leveldescriptors

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