Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Preface
- Section 1 Qualifications Frameworks: Tools for Improvement
- Section 2 The International Perspective
- Section 3 National Qualifications Frameworks in the ETF Partner Countries
- Chapter 10 The Potential of Qualifications Systems in ETF Partner Countries
- Chapter 11 Current Developments in the Partner Countries
- Chapter 12 Russia and Ukraine
- Chapter 13 Southern Caucasus
- Chapter 14 Central Asia
- Chapter 15 The Mediterranean Partners
- Chapter 16 South Eastern Europe
- Chapter 17 Concluding Remarks
- Annex: A Summary of National Legal Arrangements and New Institutions Associated with NQF Reforms
Chapter 17 - Concluding Remarks
from Section 3 - National Qualifications Frameworks in the ETF Partner Countries
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 March 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Preface
- Section 1 Qualifications Frameworks: Tools for Improvement
- Section 2 The International Perspective
- Section 3 National Qualifications Frameworks in the ETF Partner Countries
- Chapter 10 The Potential of Qualifications Systems in ETF Partner Countries
- Chapter 11 Current Developments in the Partner Countries
- Chapter 12 Russia and Ukraine
- Chapter 13 Southern Caucasus
- Chapter 14 Central Asia
- Chapter 15 The Mediterranean Partners
- Chapter 16 South Eastern Europe
- Chapter 17 Concluding Remarks
- Annex: A Summary of National Legal Arrangements and New Institutions Associated with NQF Reforms
Summary
Section 3 of this book presented ongoing reforms of education and training system in 23 countries. It analysed the conceptual frameworks underpinning qualifications systems and examined contexts and drivers that have created conditions for qualifications systems reform in ETF's partner countries, in EU member states and beyond. The overall aspirations were therefore to generate knowledge about—as well as critical reflections on—the way partner countries are reforming their education systems. A word of caution is necessary here as this review is necessarily limited because partner countries, and also some of EU member states, are still at an early stage of reforming their qualifications systems.
A first theme emerging from this book, and in general from ETF work in the field of qualifications, is that NQFs are potentially a tool for education and training reform. But because of that, the book stresses that, they are not easy to design and implement, nor are they in themselves a solution to all issues that countries may experience with their education and training systems. In this context, the country section demonstrates that while there may be common ground with EU member states, there are also necessarily specificities in the way NQF is considered and taken up in partner countries.
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- Developing Qualifications Frameworks in EU Partner CountriesModernising Education and Training, pp. 301 - 306Publisher: Anthem PressPrint publication year: 2011