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The EQF – Developing Sectors A Scottish Perspective Jack Matthews CEO - Improve Ltd

SCQF Partnership Forum. The EQF – Developing Sectors A Scottish Perspective Jack Matthews CEO - Improve Ltd 10 February 2011.

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The EQF – Developing Sectors A Scottish Perspective Jack Matthews CEO - Improve Ltd

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  1. SCQF Partnership Forum The EQF – Developing Sectors A Scottish Perspective Jack Matthews CEO - Improve Ltd 10 February 2011 improve ltd ground floor providence house2 innovation close heslington york YO10 5ZFtel 0845 6440448 fax 0845 6440449email info@improveltd.co.uk website www.improveltd.co.uk improve ltd c/o kraft foods ground floor confectionery place bishopthorpe road york YO23 1YE tel 01904 685274 fax 01904 685288 email info@improveltd.co.uk website www.improveltd.co.uk

  2. The European Qualifications Framework • What we want it to be - Primarily a Translation Device for Qualifications and Awards across Europe • Not an alternative or competing system to the SCQF • Accessible and easy to use as a key reference library • It must not take on a “life of its own” e.g. developing Qualifications and Standards

  3. No more bureaucracy! • Don’t dictate what national frameworks need to do • However - the potential for portable European Record of Achievement - Skills Passport - Europass • Simple to utilise and to explain – to Employers & individuals • EQF must NOT become simply a tool for the Educational/Training establishment

  4. EQF – Adding Value • For the EQF to add value its focus should be on adding value to existing National Frameworks that work for our sectors • The rise in migrant Labour and our existing inability to assess or recognise migrants skills levels or qualifications is a key area to address • Build the work on sectoral engagement via SCQF to more key sectors

  5. Next Steps • The traffic has a tendency to look one way at the moment • We need to be more proactive in shaping the development of the EQF • Where do we start – what areas do we want to move forward on? – No of Levels? • The European skills Market is here • Next - Development of a “Global Skills Market”

  6. We have an advantage • The development of our unit system • The coverage and maturity of the SCQF and its systems • Proven Quality Control • Universally (by providers/agencies and government) recognised routeways and paths of progression • We are closer to employers • An established sectoral approach to work with

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