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You can find information on National Qualifications Frameworks for virtually all countries in UNESCO-UNEVOC’s TVET Country Profiles database. An overview of Regional Qualifications Frameworks is available right here in TVETipedia.
Instrument for developing, classifying and issuing qualifications at international, national, regional or sectoral levels according to a set of criteria (such as descriptors) applicable to specified levels of learning outcomes.
Comment
A qualifications framework can be used to:
Based on European Parliament and Council of the European Union, 2008; OECD, 2007a
A structure for setting out the levels at which vocational qualifications accredited by regulatory authorities can be recognized.
The structure into which accredited qualifications are placed, allowing learners, training providers and employers to gain information about the broad equivalence of qualifications.
A system for placing qualifications that meet certain standards of quality on one of a series of hierarchical levels.
The hierarchical classification of the levels of formal learning programmes and their associated qualifications and certificates.
(Comment: More advanced NQFs can also play a role in facilitating stakeholder interactions, creating coherent qualifications systems, ensuring fit-for-purpose qualifications, supporting wider quality assurance processes, recognizing learning gained outside formal education and training and for driving broader educational reforms. They also make national qualifications systems more transparent to foreigners.)