Establishing national qualifications frameworks without stakeholders

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Establishing national qualifications frameworks
without stakeholders?

• Colin Tück
• ESU EQF Stakeholders Project
• Final conference
• Bled, 21 April 2008

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National QF what for?
!

• Making explicit the implicit
• Shift towards learning outcomes
• Creating new learning paths
• Bridging different sectors

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Involving stakeholders

• To create broad ownership and support
• Crucial for the education system
• Imagine NQF without stakeholders
• Who knows it?
• Who uses it?
• Who has trust in it?
• Who supports it?

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Qualifications frameworks for

• Learners/students
• Transparency of qualifications
• More learning paths, new possibilities
• Enhance recognition minimise duplication
• Employers
• Transparency of qualifications
• Bridging different sectors (HE, VET, )
• Facilitate recognition of non-formal informal
  learning

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Qualifications frameworks for

• Trade unions
• Facilitate the recognition of non-formal
  informal learning
• Create more possibilities for employees
• Education institutions/providers
• Increasing mutual trust in connection with sound
  quality assurance mechanisms
• Reference point for the design of
  qualifications/study programmes

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Qualifications frameworks for

• Quality assurance agencies
• Reference point in programme reviews
• Can be part of fitness of purpose approach
• Governments
• Greater transparency and efficiency of the
  (national) education system
• Increase communication and cooperation between
  different sectors

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Conclusions

• QF a very theoretical and meta-level discussion?
• Maybe, yet a key discussion in reforming
  education systems!
• Important to take part and influence the
  development process
• Not a quick process