Here is the latest ETF update on international developments.
The development of national qualifications frameworks is mainly driven by regional or transnational qualifications framework developments. Sometimes, these focus only on HE, sometimes on VET, but increasingly on LLL
- On the map 34 countries that are part of the EQF process are in Orange. Currently these are 28 EU member states, Iceland, Norway, Liechtenstein and Switzerland, and Candidate Countries, Turkey and Montenegro.
- In the Bologna Process 11 more countries participate, including, Albania, Andorra, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Republic of Moldova, Russian Federation, The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, The Holy See, Serbia, Ukraine
- The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Serbia and probably soon Albania are also eligible for EQF but not yet active in the EQF Advisory Group
- The Caribbean Qualifications Framework is a TVET framework, that is now becoming also becoming a LLL QF
- Other initiatives in The Americas are two regional higher education qualifications frameworks in Central America and the Mercosur countries mainly focused on public universities
- Not includes in the map: In the US the Lumina Foundation has published a Degree Qualifications Profile (a higher education qualifications framework) in 2011 that is gradually gaining terrain as a tool for QA
- All these American initiatives except for the Caribbean Framework are supported by EU projects
- In Africa the SADC Regional Qualifications Framework is the most advanced initiatives, but the ECOWAS and EAC countries are also working on frameworks. The later only on HE. Not included in the map: ETF has also launched an initiative for a regional qualifications project involving countries on all sides of the Mediterranean. This is linked as well with a French initiative for a QF for the Union of the Mediterranean.
- In the Middle East the GCC countries are discussing a regional QF to support migration between, to and from the countries. The ASEAN countries in South East Asia are advancing with developing a ASEAN Qualifications Reference Framework. In the Southern Pacific there is the Pacific Register of Qualifications and Standards that also has links to the NQFs of Australia and New Zealand.
- The blue balloons are from the members of the Transnational Qualifications Framework of the Virtual University of the Small States of the Commonwealth (which is more than a HE framework)
And here is the full list of countries:
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