Instrument for developing, classifying and issuing qualifications across a range of countries according to a set of criteria (such as descriptors) applicable to specified levels of learning outcomes.
Comment
- International qualifications frameworks are set up to respond to the increasing mobility of learners and workers, and to the need for describing, comparing and recognising qualifications developed at national, international or sectoral level;
- within the EU, the eight levels of the European qualifications framework for lifelong learning (EQF) cover the entire span of qualifications from those recognising basic knowledge, skills and competences to those awarded at the highest level of academic, professional and vocational education and training.
Source
Cedefop.