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The National Framework of Qualifications (NFQ) is a system used to describe levels of educational qualifications in Ireland.Responsibility for maintaining and developing the framework lies with Quality and Qualifications Ireland (QQI).
A national qualifications framework (NQF) is a formal system describing qualifications. 47 countries participating in the Bologna Process are committed to producing a national qualifications framework. Other countries not part of this process also have national qualifications frameworks.
National Qualifications Framework (NQF) was a former qualification framework developed for qualifications in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, which was in use between 1999 and 2008, although the five levels of NVQ dated from 1986.
The National Qualifications Authority of Ireland or NQAI (Údarás Náisiúnta Cáilíochtaí na hÉireann in Irish) was set up in 2001 under the Qualifications (Education & Training) Act, 1999 to develop and promote the implementation of a National Framework of Qualifications across education and training in Ireland.
The European Qualifications Framework (EQF) acts as a translation device to make national qualifications more readable across Europe, promoting workers' and learners' mobility between countries and facilitating their lifelong learning. The EQF aims to relate different countries' national qualifications systems to a common European reference ...
National Qualifications Frameworks (NQFs) provide a mapping between higher education qualifications and an overarching framework, allowing the cross-comparison of qualifications from different countries. [1] The overarching framework was adopted in May 2005 at a meeting of education ministers of the 48 participating countries.
At the national level, the development of national qualifications frameworks (NQFs) was considered across and beyond these regions, including Mercosur (Mercado Común del Sur, the Common Market of the South) in South America and the development of a transnational qualifications framework (TQF) by twenty-nine small states of the Commonwealth. [13]
The later stages of Ireland's National Framework of Qualifications (NFQ) relate to third-level education in the state. [ 21 ] [ 22 ] Universities in Ireland are self-regulating and accredit their own courses; [ 22 ] they were established by the state (by royal charter or primary legislation ) as were many other publicly funded higher education ...