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THE NATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS
FRAMEWORK IN HIGHER
EDUCATION
IN ROMANIA:
ACTIONS AND PLANS
Prof. dr. Dumitru MIRON
Secretary of state
Prof.dr. Sorin Eugen ZAHARIA
Belgrade, november 2007
Head of ACPART
1. Globalisation and
competences
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Competences-based
international
competitiveness
Academic world
Economic world
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Requires and provides
competences
Intelligent enterprises
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Provides competences
Entrepreneurial universities
Concordance between the educational offer and the
competences requiredBelgrade,
by november
the labour
market in order to
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support competitiveness
2. Objectives of
the Qualification
Framework for
Higher Education
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►The rationale for the QFHE is to provide a
mechanism to relate national frameworks to
each other as to enable:
1. International transparency and comparability
 between and across universities ;
 with the employers and other stakeholders;
 Instrument: Diploma Supplement;
2. International recognition of qualifications
3. International mobility of learners and graduates
 Learners can ultimately have greater confidence that the outcomes of
study abroad will contribute to a qualification sought in their country.
 A framework will also be of particular help in supporting the development
and recognition of joint degrees from more than one country;
4. Optimal insertion on the global labour market
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3. National Agency
for Qualifications
in Higher
Education and
Partnership with
Economic and
Social
Environment ACPART
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Missions (1):
 to elaborate, implement, and update the national
framework for qualifications in higher education
concerning the development, recognition and certification of
qualifications based on the knowledge, abilities, and
competences acquired by beneficiaries of the higher
education system;
 to analyse compatibility of the study programmes
curricula of higher education with national qualifications
framework standards;
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Missions (2):
 to involve Romanian higher education institutions in
the development of a European society based on
knowledge and productivity, with a competitive and
dynamic economy;
 to promote the opening of higher education institutions
towards the socio-economic environment through
cooperation actions among higher education institutions,
economic operators and other organisations, aimed at
developing specific partnerships, labour market research,
an entrepreneurial dimension to Romanian universities, as
well as knowledge transfer.
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4. National
Qualification
Framework Strategy
for 2007-2010
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A. National Level
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A.1. The development of National Qualifications
Framework for Higher Education
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A.2. The creation of National Register of
Qualifications in Higher Education
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B. International Level
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B.1. Exchanges of good practices;
B.2. Involvement in European actions for
qualifications framework;
B.3. Harmonization oh the Romanian NQF with
EQF and with other countries NQFs.
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A.1. The National Qualification Framework for
Higher Education
I. Pre – development Phase
II. Development Phase
III.Implementation Phase
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A.1. The National Qualification
Framework for Higher Education
I. Pre-development phase:
Establishment of the Advisory Committee at
the ACPART level;
Clarification of terminology and concepts;
Analysis of Bologna documents (EHEA
Framework) and EQF European Commission
papers;
Printing a Glossary of qualifications
framework.
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II. Development phase:
1. First step: buiding the Methodology for NQFHE
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The methodology content:
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Objectives of NQF:
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transparency;
mobility;
employability;
autonomy & accountability of universities.
Definition of the key concepts;
The descriptors necessary for the national qualifications
framework;
The procedures that an institution has to respect in order to
be given the right of certifying a qualification (the dossier for
the validation of a qualification);
The National Register of Qualifications in Higher Education.
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2. Second step: Building a consensus on the
NQFHE development and implementation
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3. Third step: piloting the descriptors
grid on 10 study programmes:
- Sectoral workshop with universities and
others stakeholders;
- Framework development concept build on
existing initiatives and provided
opportunities for coherence;
- Design of competences based curricula.
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4. The forth step: up-dating and improving
the final version of the Romanian
Methodology for NQFHE:
- compatible to both EHEA framework and
EQF;
- adapted to the Romanian HE environment.
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Synergies:
 There is a synergetic relationship between the
ACPART Agency and the quality assurance.
 The ACPART Agency manages the description of
the higher education professional qualifications for
each study programmes and validates the new
qualifications, while nationals agencies for quality
assurance evaluate the content and the quality of
the process which ends by certifying a specific higher
education program.
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Procedures that a HE institution has to
respect in order to be given the right of
certifying a qualification
Labour
market
requests
MERY*
ACPART
-Evaluation;
-Included in
NQF.
Dossier with the notification
for qualification approval
Higher
education
institution
*MERY – The Ministry of Education, Belgrade,
Research
and
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National
Agencies
for QA
A.2. The development of the National Qualifications
Register for Higher Education (NQRHE)
• The NRQHE should be seen as a multi-actor and multinational tool of interest.
- As a multi-actor tool, NRQHE represents the result of the
collaboration among different stakeholders;
- As a multi-national tool, NRQHE will be available on-line
both in Romanian and in English, in order to ensure the
national and international access to information.
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• NRQHE has been started in his first experimental
form, bringing together all the titles/qualifications
given by the Romanian universities. This is in
public use starting with 1st of May 2007 on the
ACPART website.
• The future development of the Register will be
supported by projects with Governmental and
Structural Funds.
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B. INTERNATIONAL LEVEL
B.1. Harmonization of the Romanian NQF with EQF
and with other countries the NQFs
 The Leonardo da Vinci Project 2006-4607/001-001 LE2-707
EQF ”Developing Key Methodological Units for the the
Implementation of EQF by Means of NQFs – EQF by
NQFs”. Its development period is January 1st, 2007 –
December 31st, 2008.
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 The general objective of the project is to exchange experiences
and to develop and test modular grids of competences and
key methodological units comprising principles, mechanisms
and guidance tools for the elaboration of EQF and specific
NQFs.
 The project partners are: University of Versailles SaintQuentin-en-Yvelines (France), Higher Education and Training
Awards Council (Ireland), CROSS (Netherlands), The Ministry
of Education and Research (Romania), The Association for
Information Technology and Communication (Romania),
University of Zaragoza (Spain), The National Recognition
Information Centre (United Kingdom).
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 The Leonardo da Vinci Pilot Project FR/04/B/P/PP-151128
„European mechanism for distance information, orientation
and validation of the jobs and qualifications in informatics and
multimedia, from lifelong learning point of view” – EURO
PORTIC promoted by the University of Versailles. Partner
countries: France, Spain, Great Britain, Romania, Estonia.
 The transnational cooperation project Socrates-Minerva 116530CP-1-2004-1-FR-MINERVA-MPP „European programme of etrainings and validation through competences in dataprocessing and multimedia” – e-FORMINFO promoted by the
University of Versailles. Partner countries: France, Spain, Poland,
Romania, Great Britain.
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 The Leonardo da Vinci Project RO/05/B/F/PP175012
“Virtual training for young entrepreneurs of
innovating business” - eNOV, promoted by
ACPART. Partner countries: Romania, France, Greece,
Spain, Belgium, Poland and UK.
 The
Leonardo
da Vinci
Mobility
Project
RO/2006/97041/EX „Experts training in the field of
quality assurance and qualifications in HE” –
CALEX promoted by the ACPART Agency. Partner
countries: France, Ireland , Spain.
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5. Publications
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 Papers and support materials for information and
dissemination regarding the system of qualifications at
European and national level
„Conceptual bases for the development of NQFHE
in Romania” (May, 2007)
 Proceedings of UNISO 2006 (May, 2007)
 Proceedings of UNISO 2007 (to be published)
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6. Events
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►Summer University „UNIversity in SOciety – UNISO”
2007 „Lifelong learning and qualifications in higher
education” was organized in Versailles (France) - 9-12 July
2007 by ACPART in collaboration with the University of
Versailles with the support of DG EAC of EC, University of
Rouen, University Paris 6 Pierre et Marie Curie, University
of Picardy "Jules Verne“, Regional Council of Ile de France,
General Council of Yvelines, and Romanian Association for
Knowledge Transfer.
2008 “for a Competences based Higher Education:
Challenges and solutions ”, in Iasi (Romania) – 15 -20 of July
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International workshop: EQF and NQFs
Role in Supporting Professional Career
Development
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However…
There is still a long way!
- The government approval of the Methodology for
NQFHE;
- All study programmes leading to the new degrees,
should be (re)designed to be linked to the framework…
- …along with credit transfer and accumulation system
- Curriculum design, approaches to teaching, learning and
student assessment should also reflect the new
approach
- Internal and external QA process should be linked to the
framework with efforts to avoid « a technology of
standards »
- The need for a critical debate in the implementation
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process
7. Conclusions
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1. The necessity for improving the dialogue with universities,
stakeholders, students:
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to explain;
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to build up together the NQFs;
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to have a feedback.
2. The NQF should be an opportunity for a centered student
higher education as well as for reviewing and possibly redesigning the qualifications descriptions and even the
entire qualifications system;
3. The NQF to be characterized by:
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flexibility;
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applicability;
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visibility.
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4. Qualifications framework should support:
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the mobility;
curricula reform;
better understanding of study cycle and learning outcomes
after each cycles.
5. Work towards fully implementing a national
qualifications framework based on learning
outcomes by 2010.
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6. Linking the development of the qualifications
framework to other Bologna action lines:
 quality assurance,
 credit transfer and accumulation systems,
 lifelong learning,
 flexible learning paths and the social dimension.
 the Recognition of Qualifications, particularly the diploma
supplement and quality assurance
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7. Make formal links between the Bologna
Process and the ENIC/NARIC network to
undertake further work on developing and
implementing national action plans for
recognition.
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Stocktaking Ministries
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Thank you for your
attention!
National Agency for Qualifications
in Higher Education and Partnership
with Economic and Social Environment
(ACPART)
Bdv. Schitu Magureanu,
no. 1, et.III
Bucharest, 050025
Tel.: 0040/21/3130050
Fax:0040/21/3130053
E-mail: [email protected]; Web: www.acpart.ro
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