Sources and resources

This section seeks to present an overview of web sites, articles and publications that are relevant to qualifications frameworks. Where possible, links are given to the texts themselves. If the texts are not available on line, this section seeks to provide links to sites through which the texts may be ordered or, failing that, to give some details on the publications.

The overarching framework of qualifications of the European Higher Education Area

The overarching framework

The report by the Bologna Working Group on Qualifications Frameworks 2005 (Chair: Mogens Berg)

The report by the Bologna Working Group on Qualifications Frameworks 2007 (Chair: Mogens Berg)
 

Bologna conferences leading to the EHEA framework

Conference report from the 2005 Copenhagen conference on the Framework for Qualifications of the European Higher Education Area, by Sjur Bergan

Conference report from the 2003 Copenhagen conference on Qualification Structures in Higher Education in Europe, by Sjur Bergan

Background report for the 2003 Copenhagen conference on Qualification Structures in Higher Education in Europe, by Stephen Adam
 

Other articles on the overarching EHEA Framework

David Bottomley, Gerard Madill, Bryan Maguire, Jim Murray, Seán Ó Foghlú: “Challenges Addressed and Issues Arising from the Alignment of the Scottish and Irish National Frameworks of Qualifications with the Framework for Qualifications of the European Higher Education Area”, article B 2.5-2 in Eric Froment, Jürgen Kohler, Lewis Purser and Lesley Wilson (eds.): EUA Bologna Handbook – Making Bologna Work (Berlin 2006: Raabe Verlag)

Jim Murray: “The Framework for Qualifications of the European Higher Education Area: challenges and opportunities”, article B 2.5-1 in Eric Froment, Jürgen Kohler, Lewis Purser and Lesley Wilson (eds.): EUA Bologna Handbook – Making Bologna Work (Berlin 2006: Raabe Verlag)
 

European Qualifications Framework for Lifelong Learning (EQF)

Information

In the context of the European Qualifications Framework for lifelong learning (EQF), the European Commission and CEDEFOP have issued a publication on the added value of national qualifications frameworks, written by Jens Bjørnavold and Mike Coles.  The publication addresses the role of national frameworks in relation to the EQF but the considerations are equally valid for the relationship between national frameworks and the overarching framework of qualifications of the European Higher Education Area.

National Qualifications Frameworks

David Bottomley, Gerard Madill, Bryan Maguire, Jim Murray, Seán Ó Foghlú: “Challenges Addressed and Issues Arising from the Alignment of the Scottish and Irish National Frameworks of Qualifications with the Framework for Qualifications of the European Higher Education Area”, article B 2.5-2 in Eric Froment, Jürgen Kohler, Lewis Purser and Lesley Wilson (eds.): EUA Bologna Handbook – Making Bologna Work (Berlin 2006: Raabe Verlag)

Framework Implementation and Impact Study on the Irish National Framework of Qualifications, September 2009 

 

Information on national qualifications frameworks
 

Qualifications frameworks and quality assurance

Report of the “ENQA Workshop on Quality Assurance and Qualifications Frameworks”, held in Dublin in June 2007. The articles have been submitted by the presenters of the workshop. The report gives an overview on recent European developments and examines the implications of the qualifications frameworks for quality assurance in different European countries. 

The concept of qualifications

Sjur Bergan: Qualifications: Introduction to a Concept

Strasbourg 2007: Council of Europe Publishing. Council of Europe Higher Education Series (No. 6)
 

Purposes of education

Sjur Bergan: “Promoting New Approaches to Learning”, article B 1.1-1 in Eric Froment, Jürgen Kohler, Lewis Purser and Lesley Wilson (eds.): EUA Bologna Handbook – Making Bologna Work (Berlin 2006: Raabe Verlag)

Learning outcomes

Stephen Adam: “An introduction to learning outcomes: A consideration of the nature, function and position of learning outcomes in the creation of the European Higher Education Area”, article B.2.3-1 in Eric Froment, Jürgen Kohler, Lewis Purser and Lesley Wilson (eds.): EUA Bologna Handbook – Making Bologna Work (Berlin 2006: Raabe Verlag)

Stephen Adam: “Using Learning Outcomes”. Report for the Bologna conference on learning outcomes held in Edinburgh on 1 – 2 July 2004

Declan Kennedy: Writing and Using Learning Outcomes: A Practical Guide (Cork 2007: University College Cork)

Declan Kennedy, Áine Hyland, Norma Ryan: “Writing and using learning outcomes: a practical guide”, article C 3.4-1 in Eric Froment, Jürgen Kohler, Lewis Purser and Lesley Wilson (eds.): EUA Bologna Handbook – Making Bologna Work (Berlin 2006: Raabe Verlag)

Jennifer Moon: “Linking Levels, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Criteria”. Report for the Bologna conference on learning outcomes held in Edinburgh on 1 – 2 July 2004
 

Recognition

The Lisbon Recognition Convention  (Word format)

Explanatory Memorandum

A constantly updated list of ratifications and signatures may be found at here; search for ETS 165.
NB Do not bookmark the table; it will show the situation on the date on which it was bookmarked.

Web page of the ENIC and NARIC Networks of national information centres on recognition of qualifications

Stephen Adam: “The Impact of Emerging Qualification Frameworks on Recognition”

Sjur Bergan (ed.): Recognition Issues in the Bologna Process (Strasbourg 2003: Council of Europe Publishing)

Sjur Bergan and Andrejs Rauhvargers (eds): Standards for Recognition: the Lisbon Recognition Convention and its Subsidiary Texts (Strasbourg 2005: Council of Europe Publishing. Council of Europe Higher Education Series No. 3)

Sjur Bergan and Andrejs Rauhvargers (eds): Recognition in the Bologna Process: Policy Development and the Road to Good Practice

Strasbourg 2006: Council of Europe Publishing. Council of Europe Higher Education Series No. 4

Carita Blomqvist: “Qualifications Frameworks and Recognition”

Andrejs Rauhvargers: “The Lisbon Recognition Convention: principles and practical Application”, article B 3.4-1 in Eric Froment, Jürgen Kohler, Lewis Purser and Lesley Wilson (eds.): EUA Bologna Handbook – Making Bologna Work (Berlin 2006: Raabe Verlag)
 

Generic and subject specific competences

The TUNING Project (Tuning Educational Structures in Europe) has developed the notions of  generic and subject specific competences in considerable detail.

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