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Developments at EU level related to quality assurance
EQAVET NRP meeting
Brussels, 26 November 2013
The Survey of Adult Skills: Some interesting results
• 20% EU working age population: low literacy & numeracy skills
• 25% adults lack digital skills needed to effectively use ICT
• striking differences: recent school leavers with upper secondary qualification in some MS ≥ skills than HE graduates in others
• LLL policies sustaining skills over time given the gaps between generations and the significant economic and social benefits of higher skills.
Opening up education
• Challenges
• Teachers digital skills
• Training institutions infrastructures – poor ICT developed
• Digital content elaborated mostly outside Europe
• Opportunities
• Broadening access to education
• Lower costs for students and institutions
• Fuel innovation
Next steps
Erasmus+ and Horizon 2020:
•Financial support for elaboration of tools, partnerships, teachers
Structural funds
•To be used by member States
•Renewal of IT infrastructures in schools
•Revision of assessments
Education and Culture
ECTS – 25 years on
Club members
1988: European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System (ECTS) to transfer achievements of Erasmus students
2013: > 75% HEI in EHEA use ECTS for transfer accumulation (learning outcomes and student workload approach)
2009: latest ECTS Users' Guide: guidance to HEIs on ECTS
Education and Culture
ECTS Users' Guide revision
Club members
Promoting student-centred learning
Ensuring meaningful implementation of learning outcomes (teaching, learning and assessment)
Encompassing LLL and reflecting the state of on-going work on recognition of prior learning
Catering for new ways of delivering programmes (OER, MOOCs)
Helping reduce obstacles to mobility/recognition
Strengthening links to other transparency tools
Education and Culture
Club members
Ad-hoc Working Group :
Representatives from 14 countries: AM, BE-nl, DE, FR, HU, IT, LT, MD, NL, NO, SE, UA and UK
4 organisations: ENQA, ESU, EUA and EURASHE
Chair: European Commission
Timing:
The revised Guide will be finalized in advance of the Yerevan Ministerial Conference in 2015
ECTS Users' Guide revision
Education and Culture
2013 ECVET evaluation:
-ECVET to increase synergies with other transparency instruments;
or die
2013-14 ECVET evaluation:
Next on your screen:
-Interviews Q4 2013
-Final report Q2 2014
-Commission report to the EP and Council mid-2014 (ECVET to increase synergies with other transparency
instruments ?)
and live
Club members
Education and Culture
-To what extent does ECVET contribute to ET2020, EU2020, Copenhagen Process?
-To what extent is ECVET compatible with other transparency tools? Are there synergies, namely with national qualification frameworks?
-What are the benefits of ECVET for the learners – and for other stakeholders?
-Why didn't all countries set up necessary conditions? How can they be supported?
ECVET evaluation questionsClub members
Education and Culture
-How is ECVET used and how can it be used within mobility projects?
-To what extent do ECVET credit points reinforce geographical VET mobility?
-To what extent does ECVET support permeability between VET and HE?
-To what extent does ECVET support validation of prior learning?
ECVET evaluation questionsClub members
Education and Culture
-Is the governance structure adequate?
ECVET evaluation questionsClub members
Education and Culture
Validation of non-formal and informal learning
By 2018: National arrangements for validation for NFIL
Validation systems should include:Support for identification of learning outcomes Documentation of learning outcomesAssessment of learning outcomesCertification of learning outcomes (e.g. credits or a full qualification)
Close to the club
Education and Culture
Validation of non-formal and informal learning
Principles for national arrangements:Linked to the NQF and in line with the EQFInformation and guidance to be widely availableSpecific targeting of disadvantaged groupsAudit of skills and competences within 6 months Transparent quality assurance measuresProfessional development of validation staffQualifications obtained via NFIL: agreed standardsUse of European transparency toolsSynergies with credit systems (e.g. ECTS, ECVET)
Close to the club
• Quality and Efficiency in Adult Learning
• High-level meeting between Commissioner Vassiliou and the European Social Partners; The European Education, Training and Youth Forum 2013
• Quality Framework for Traineeships• European Alliance for apprenticeships• EURES Working Group on inclusion of Apprenticeships and
Traineeships• https://www.facebook.com/EUErasmusPlusProgramme
Education and Culture
European area of skills and qualifications
Club reunion
- Stakeholders consultation(policy developers, practitioners, networks, social partners, civil society)
- General public consultation
- A study
- A conference
Dec 2013- Mar 2014
Feb – May 2014
By mid-2014
Begin 2014
Events
• ESCO Conference 24-25 October 2013 Esco portal
• ECVET conference 24-25 October 2013• European Business Forum on Vocational Training
2014 in Brussels in May-June 2014.
EQAVET
EQAVET mapping study on quality assurance instruments in CVET and comparing them with EQAVET
EQAVET external evaluation EQAVET report and Report on progress in QA in
HE