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QUALIFICATIONS FRAMEWORKS: DEVELOPMENTS AND CHALLENGES FOR PROFESSIONAL HIGHER EDUCATION EURASHE Budapest, March 10, 2010 Sjur Bergan, Council of Europe
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WHAT IS A QUALIFICATION? Quality Quality Effort required (credits) Effort required (credits) Level Level Profile Profile Learning outcomes Learning outcomes
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QUALIFICATIONS FRAMEWORK How qualifications fit together within and between systems How qualifications fit together within and between systems Description of all qualifications in a given (higher) education system Description of all qualifications in a given (higher) education system Description of how these qualifications articulate Description of how these qualifications articulate Description of how learners can move between qualifications within a system Description of how learners can move between qualifications within a system Description understandable to informed foreigners Description understandable to informed foreigners Description of learning outcomes Description of learning outcomes An instrument to describe and make sense of diversity An instrument to describe and make sense of diversity
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MINISTERS IN BERGEN 2005, LONDON 2007 AND LEUVEN 2009 We have an overarching framework (adopted in Bergen 2005) We have an overarching framework (adopted in Bergen 2005) We will develop national frameworks compatible with the EHEA framework and prepared for self certification by 2012 (Leuven changed deadline) We will develop national frameworks compatible with the EHEA framework and prepared for self certification by 2012 (Leuven changed deadline) This is a steep challenge and we need continued coordination even if QFs are ultimately a national responsibility This is a steep challenge and we need continued coordination even if QFs are ultimately a national responsibility
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FRAMEWORKS AND FRAMEWORK National framework closest to the operational reality closest to the operational reality owned by national system owned by national system ultimately determines what qualifications learners will earn ultimately determines what qualifications learners will earn describe the qualifications within a given education system and how they interlink describe the qualifications within a given education system and how they interlink Overarching framework facilitates movement between systems facilitates movement between systems face of “Bologna qualifications” to the rest of the world face of “Bologna qualifications” to the rest of the world provides the broad structure within which national qualifications frameworks will be developed (“outer limits” for diversity) provides the broad structure within which national qualifications frameworks will be developed (“outer limits” for diversity)
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OVERACHING FRAMEWORKS Bologna (QF-EHEA) Adopted 2005 Adopted 2005 46 countries 46 countries Higher education only Higher education only 3 levels with possibility for intermediate qualifications in national frameworks 3 levels with possibility for intermediate qualifications in national frameworks Overseen by BFUG and WG QFs Overseen by BFUG and WG QFs EQF Lifelong learning Adopted 2008 Adopted 2008 32 countries 32 countries All levels of education in a lifelong learning perspective All levels of education in a lifelong learning perspective 8 levels 8 levels Overseen by EQF Advisory Board and the European Commission Overseen by EQF Advisory Board and the European Commission
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TWO EUROPEAN FRAMEWORKS, BUT… Close cooperation between the two overarching frameworks Close cooperation between the two overarching frameworks The two frameworks are compatible even if the wording is not identical The two frameworks are compatible even if the wording is not identical Most importantly: it is entirely possible to develop national frameworks compatible with both overarching frameworks Most importantly: it is entirely possible to develop national frameworks compatible with both overarching frameworks
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CHALLENGES Learning outcomes Learning outcomes Qualifications frameworks and quality assurance Qualifications frameworks and quality assurance Qualifications frameworks and recognition Qualifications frameworks and recognition Stakeholder involvement Stakeholder involvement Self certification Self certification Further regional cooperation in Central Europe? Further regional cooperation in Central Europe?
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PARTICULAR CHALLENGES FOR PROFESSIONAL HE? Articulation higher education framework/VET/general framework Articulation higher education framework/VET/general framework Academic and professional HE degrees: common or separate paths? Academic and professional HE degrees: common or separate paths? What are the specific competences of professional HE? What are the specific competences of professional HE?
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WEB SITES Bologna QF web site Bologna QF web site http://www.ond.vlaanderen.be/hogeronde rwijs/bologna/qf/qf.asp http://www.ond.vlaanderen.be/hogeronde rwijs/bologna/qf/qf.asp http://www.ond.vlaanderen.be/hogeronde rwijs/bologna/qf/qf.asp http://www.ond.vlaanderen.be/hogeronde rwijs/bologna/qf/qf.asp Council of Europe HE site Council of Europe HE site http://www.coe.int/t/dg4/highereducation /Default_en.asp http://www.coe.int/t/dg4/highereducation /Default_en.asp http://www.coe.int/t/dg4/highereducation /Default_en.asp http://www.coe.int/t/dg4/highereducation /Default_en.asp EQF site EQF site http://ec.europa.eu/education/lifelong- learning-policy/doc44_en.htm http://ec.europa.eu/education/lifelong- learning-policy/doc44_en.htm http://ec.europa.eu/education/lifelong- learning-policy/doc44_en.htm http://ec.europa.eu/education/lifelong- learning-policy/doc44_en.htm
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