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Self assessment tool

Instructions: Mark the appropriate coloured circle: Green - yes/to a significant extent; Amber - more or less/partially; Red - no/needs to be initiated
  • Questions
  • Answers

  • Legislation for better qualifications

    General
    Have you mapped:

  • ● existing legislation in the field of education and training?
  • ● existing labour market legislation?
  • ● existing and planned legislation for qualifications reform?
  • Comments

  • For reflection:
    ●What are the relevant laws for qualifications reform in your country?
    ● To what extent is existing legislation, or a lack of legislation, an obstacle for qualifications reform?

  • Key functions
    Do (new) laws for qualifications reform regulate:

  • ● Purposes and principles?
  • ● Institutional arrangements and resources?
  • ● Involvement of stakeholders?

  • Are the following aspects of qualifications regulated:

  • ● Development of qualifications?
  • ● NQF?
  • ● Quality Assurance mechanisms?
  • ● Validation of non-formal and informal learning (VNFIL)?
  • ● Recognition of qualifications?
  • Comments

  • For reflection:
    ●Are the NQF functions listed above essential for qualifications reform in your country?
    ●Can regulating these functions be used to empower actors rather than control them? How?

  • Legislative process

  • Are new laws being drafted (or existing laws adapted) in order to improve the relevance and quality of qualifications?
  • Are new laws (or adaptations of existing laws) based on a national strategy for qualifications reform?
  • Comments

  • For reflection:
    ●When drafting new legislation or adapting existing legislation, how do you ensure that related legislation is aligned?
    ●How can you accelerate a legislative process that is necessary for qualifications reform?
    ●What issues need parliamentary approval, and what are more technical issues that government can regulate?

  • Stakeholder involvement in the legislative process

  • Are stakeholders involved in drafting of new legislation?
  • Is stakeholder involvement in planning, design and implementation of qualifications reform clearly regulated by the existing legislation?
  • Is stakeholders involvement in planning, design and implementation of qualifications reform stimulated in the current legislation?
  • Comments

  • For reflection:
    ●How do you consult stakeholders when drafting new laws on qualifications?
    ●Can you improve stakeholder involvement by regulating it? How?
    ●How some legislation perhaps hinder or exclude stakeholder involvement?
    ●What are the most common obstacles to the involvement of stakeholders?

  • Implementation
  • Are laws for qualifications reform consistent with each other?
  • Are institutional arrangements for qualifications reform regulated?
  • Are primary laws supplemented with by-laws to regulate operational arrangements?
  • Are resources and institutional capacities to implement laws available?
  • Comments

  • For reflection:
    ●Are provisions of new laws in your country always implemented? If not, what are main obstacles and how could these be overcome?
    ●How do you increase commitment when drafting new laws for qualifications reform?

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