Glossaire TVETipedia

Qualifications system

Organised range of mechanisms, structures and activities which enable citizen access to education and training, leading to qualifications adapted to needs and giving access to employment, recognition of skills and qualifications, lifelong guidance and lifelong learning.

Comment

A qualifications system requires the following elements:

- legal framework;

- institutional framework to develop:

a qualification policy;
standards and qualifications;
education and training programmes and curricula;
procedures for assessment and certification, validation of formal, non-formal and informal learning, recognition of learning outcomes;
a national register of qualifications;
a qualifications framework;
funding mechanisms;
lifelong guidance;
quality assurance and regulation mechanisms;

- stakeholders:

education and training providers;
teachers and trainers;
civil society: employer and worker organisations, professional bodies and sectoral organisations, * community and voluntary organisations, student, teacher and trainer associations;
awarding and accreditation bodies;
researchers working on education and labour force issues;
quality assurance agencies;
career guidance practitioners;
government departments and agencies;
trainers of teachers and trainers;

- quality assurance framework:

policy and governance;
qualification standards;
education and training provisions;
assessment, validation and certification;
data collection and analysis (skill supply and demand).

Source

Cedefop; European Training Foundation, 2016

Source:
Cedefop, Glossary. Terminology of European education and training policy, (accessed 03/2023)
Cedefop, Glossary. Terminology of European education and training policy, (accessed 03/2023)
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This multilingual glossary (provided in a multitude of European languages) defines a selection of key terms used in European education and training policy. It is a revised and expanded version of the “Terminology of European education and training policy – A selection of 130 key terms” (2014). It considers new priorities of European Union policy, mainly concerning skills intelligence and employment. New definitions have been developed in collaboration with the experts of Cedefop’s departments VET and Skills and VET and Qualifications.

All aspects of a country's activity that result in the recognition of learning.

Source:
ILO, Glossary of terms at the International Labour Conference 2022, Apprenticeships, 2022
ILO, Glossary of terms at the International Labour Conference 2022, Apprenticeships, 2022
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ILO’s trilingual glossary presents selected terms related to TVET (skills and lifelong learning, apprenticeships).