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The European Parliament has ratified the European Qualification Framework (EQF) on the 24th of October 2007. The EQF is planning to assign eight reference levels to all sorts of qualifications, from the compulsory school leaving certificate and certificates of the vocational training and further training until the highest academic certificates of successful completion as well as non-formally and informally acquired competences.
The “European Qualification Framework for Lifelong Learning” (EQF) should facilitate the assessment of qualifications and contribute to the creation of a European labour market.
The EQF comprises general education, vocational training and further training as well as academic education. Eight reference levels build the core of the EQF, with which the learning outcomes are described. The EQF aims to determine vocational qualifications no longer by means of learning paths and leaving certificates, but by means of results of learning processes.
According to the draft, the member states are expected to adapt their national qualification systems to the EQF by 2010. Furthermore, by the year 2012 at the latest, it should be specified on all certificates and other qualifications, to which of the eight determined reference levels is the qualification to be assigned.
The member states are expected to attach their national qualification framework (NQF) to the European Qualification Framework (EQF).
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