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Qualifications Frameworks in Europe: Forging the Right Links. Briefing Note
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Cedefop - European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training, 2013
As national qualifications frameworks in Europe move closer to operation, policy integration becomes a key challenge. Introducing qualifications frameworks based on learning outcomes is now a global phenomenon. According to the recent joint publication by Cedefop, ETF and Unesco, frameworks are either established or being developed in 142…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Qualifications, Educational Policy, Global Approach
Failure of the Croatian Higher Education Reform
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Kurelic, Zoran; Rodin, Siniša – Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal, 2012
The authors analyse the reasons for Croatian higher education reform since 2003, as well as its consequences. The main proposition of the paper is that the implementation of the Bologna Process in Croatia has failed due to a fundamental misunderstanding of the goals of the process, a lack of correspondence between the cycles of higher education…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Educational Change, Failure
The European Qualification Framework: Skills, Competences or Knowledge?
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Mehaut, Philippe; Winch, Christopher – European Educational Research Journal, 2012
The European Qualification Framework (EQF) is intended to transform European national qualification frameworks (NQFs) by moulding them into a learning outcomes framework. Currently adopted as an enabling law by the European Union, the EQF has now operated for several years. In order to secure widespread adoption, however, it will be necessary for…
Descriptors: Qualifications, Foreign Countries, Performance Factors, Barriers
Lifelong Learning in Public Libraries in 12 European Union Countries: Issues in Monitoring and Evaluation
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Stanziola, Javier – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2011
Public libraries in Europe have supported lifelong learning for the past 500 years. Since the Lisbon Strategy emphasized the role of lifelong learning in economic policy, public libraries have been repositioning their services to respond to this new context. In some cases, these roles are undertaken with limited legislative or strategic changes…
Descriptors: Lifelong Learning, Public Libraries, Foreign Countries, Performance Factors
Transfer of Learning Technologies--The Experience of the DELTA DEMO ESC Project.
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Friedrich, Felix – Open Learning, 1997
Reports on an evaluation of European Union-funded initiatives within the DELTA Program carried out by five EuroStudyCentres (ESCs). Concludes that (1) the decision about implementing educational technologies should be a result of a close examination of the match between technology and educational conditions; (2) for the optimal technology/user…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Decision Making, Educational Practices, Educational Technology
Supplement to the Study on the Structures of the Education and Initial Training Systems in the European Union. The Situation in Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia.
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Commission of the European Communities, Brussels (Belgium). Directorate-General for Education, Training, and Youth. – 1997
This document consists of six reports that each provide essential basic information on the organization of the education system of one of the following countries as of 1995-1996: Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Slovakia. Each report includes information on some or all of the following aspects of the given country's initial…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Career Guidance, Comparative Analysis, Delivery Systems