Overview of National Qualification frameworks - Project-Nqf-Sqf

Which segments of the educational system are differentiated in your country?The segments that are differentiated are:• General secundary Education,• VET (including Full time and dual vocational education (BOL &BBL)• Higher Education• Adult EducationNon Formal education will also referenced to the NLQF.3 Referencing the EQFWhich tools are used to create an interface to EQF?• The assignment of the construction of the NLQF determined that the existing levels in vmbo,mbo, havo, vwo, higher education and adult education (the educational system) had to bedescribed with one common language and that logical ranking or juxtapositioning shoulddetermine the amount of levels.• At first a conceptual framework was designed. It was designed as a fundament for the NLQFand to test the NLQF. Experts of the designated educational sectors have contributed to theelaboration of this conceptual framework.• The existing qualification levels were described in the chosen conceptual framework in thenext step and in then in the described round table conferences presented to stakeholders.• At the moment three documents are available:o Schematisch overzicht van de Nederlandse onderwijssectoren, NLQF en hetEQFA scheme of the Dutch educational sectors and the NLQF and EQFo Niveaubeschrijvingen NLQF-EQF. A description of the context of the variouseducation using the descriptors of the conceptual frameworko Matrix met niveaubeschrijvingen NLQF. A generic scheme in which the 10 levelsare placed next to each other and in which one can see the differences between each3