The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 280 No 7502 p588
17 May 2008

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Qualifications to transfer more easily

The European Qualifications Framework — a voluntary scheme designed to improve transfer of people’s educational qualifications between member states — was formally adopted by the European Parliament last month.

At the EQF’s core are eight reference levels of qualification, ranging from those obtained at the end of compulsory schooling through to doctorate-level. The framework will act as a “translation device to make qualifications more readable and understandable to employers, individuals and institutions”, the EC reported.

It is expected that member states will relate their national qualifications systems to the EQF by 2010 and that their qualifications will contain a reference to the framework by 2012.