Qualifications are a key element of higher education policies in general and of the Bologna Process in particular. Much work has been accomplished in this area over the past few years, and a proper understanding of qualifications is essential to making the European Higher Education Area a reality.This book provides a systematic overview of the concept of qualifications, discusses its main elements, such as Ievel, workload, quality, profile and learning outcomes, examines generic and subject-specific competences. The author also considers the development of qualifications frameworks and explores the impact of our understanding of the concept of qualifications on recognition.Sjur Bergan is Head of the Department of Higher Education and History Teaching of the Council of Europe, a member of the Bologna Follow-Up Group and one of the authors of the Council of Europe/UNESCO Recognition Convention. He has played an active role in the development of the overarching qualifications framework of the European Higher Education Area.
Preface
Introduction
Part I --Approaching a complex reality
1 Setting the scene: the development of qualifications
2 A complex reality
3 Making sense of complexity: specific and generic competences
Part II -- The components of qualifications
4 Level
5 Workload
6 Quality
7 Profile
8 Learning outcomes
Part III -- Making qualifications fit together
9 National qualifications frameworks
10 Overarching qualifications frameworks
11 Obtaining qualifications: learning paths
Part IV -- Qualifications and education systems
12 National, European, international and transnational qualifications
13 Moving between education systems: the setting and legal framework for the
recognition of qualifications
14 Moving between education systems: recognition procedures and issues
15 Qualifications: functions and further development
Suggestions for further reading
List of tables
2.1 European Language Portfolio, global scale: levels
2.2 European Language Portfolio, global scale: levels and functions
2.3 Dublin Descriptors: differentiating between cycles
9.1 Scottish Qualifications Framework (SCQF)
9.2 New Zealand Qualifications Framework (levels 2, 5 and 9)
10.1 European Qualifications Framework (draft version, 2005)
10.2 European Qualifications Framework (revised version, 2006)
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Qualifications -- Introduction to a concept (Council of Europe higher education series No.6)
