National qualifications framework developments in Europe 2017

Cedefop has been working on transparency and recognition of qualifications since the 1980s and has helped shape the European qualifications framework (EQF), adopted in 2008 and revised in 2017. The long-term priority of the EQF is to strengthen transparency and comparability of European qualifications, to support mobility and progression of students and workers across national and institutional borders. The EQF has triggered development of national qualifications frameworks (NQFs) across Europe. This publication on the latest NQF developments aims to share how 43 NQFs in 39 countries...  [+] Show more

Cedefop has been working on transparency and recognition of qualifications since the 1980s and has helped shape the European qualifications framework (EQF), adopted in 2008 and revised in 2017. The long-term priority of the EQF is to strengthen transparency and comparability of European qualifications, to support mobility and progression of students and workers across national and institutional borders. The EQF has triggered development of national qualifications frameworks (NQFs) across Europe. This publication on the latest NQF developments aims to share how 43 NQFs in 39 countries participating in the EQF implementation (28 EU Member States as well as Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Kosovo, Montenegro, Norway, Serbia, Switzerland and Turkey) are structured, and how national qualifications have been allocated to NQF levels and linked to the EQF.

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