WHAT IS A QUALIFICATIONS FRAMEWORK?

A qualifications framework acts as a reference document to help place individual qualifications within their respective education systems. It is a tool that:

• describes the main purposes and learning expectations for each qualification in a particular education system, and the relationship between the different qualifications;
• provides the continuum of learning expectations along which any new qualifications can be placed in that education system;
• provides a context for policies on credit transfer and qualification recognition that facilitate lifelong learning;
• assists in comparing one's own standards with those in other education systems, whether for purposes of study elsewhere or the export of programs to other jurisdictions.

A qualifications framework is an important recognition tool that facilitates the mobility of internationally trained individuals between countries that have different education systems and issue different qualifications.

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