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Working Group 4 Improving comparability – frameworks of qualifications

Working Group 4 Improving comparability – frameworks of qualifications. Rapporteur: Mike Coles, United Kingdom, Qualifications and Curriculum Authority. Overview. Only way forward,huge challenge, huge opportunity Frameworks offer synergy Mutual trust needs to be earned

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Working Group 4 Improving comparability – frameworks of qualifications

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  1. Working Group 4Improving comparability – frameworks of qualifications Rapporteur: Mike Coles, United Kingdom, Qualifications and Curriculum Authority

  2. Overview • Only way forward,huge challenge, huge opportunity • Frameworks offer synergy • Mutual trust needs to be earned • Conceptual; purposes, inclusivity, new style framework • Political; stakeholders (intensity of discussion on added value), all EU initiativies must relate to EQF, and NQFs must link with EQF • Technical; maxi (credits, LLL) v mini (Quals, levels) • National frameworks (emphasis on vision) • European reference framework

  3. Key points • Strong support for NQFs • Definitions needed • Reference framework should facilitate local diversity • New style framework needed (learning outcomes, level, level descriptors etc.) ; credits way forward • EQF can be aspirational, solve local problems, tool for reform • Political will in place, lets accelerate on Conceptual and Technical • Reform (Bologna, EQF); everything else is evolution

  4. ISSUES • Comparability • Existing frameworks ISCED and European levels • Handbook as a tool for development

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