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Most of the European Training Foundation's (ETF) 29 partner countries have national qualifications frameworks (NQF) but these are mainly on paper or only partially implemented. This toolkit examines why countries are blocked and proposes solutions to speed up implementation. The authors go wider than NQFs. To tackle problems in implementing an NQF requires addressing the four key elements in a qualification system: laws, stakeholders institutions and quality assurance. So our focus is on the qualification system and making it work. The toolkit is structured to open up and discuss issues and describe country experiences in a series of chapters, each intended to capture one dimension of organising qualification systems. The whole should, therefore, result in understanding of how governance (including legislation, stakeholder involvement, institutions and quality assurance mechanisms) produces more relevant and higher quality qualifications.

Contents: Getting organised: rationale and concepts; Legislation for better qualifications: support or obstacle?; Stakeholder involvement: in or out?; Institutional arrangements: bureaucracies or service providers?; Quality assurance for qualifications: empowering or controlling?

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