ETF unterstützt Ägypten, Jordanien, Marokko und Tunesien bei Entwicklung Nationaler Qualitätsrahmen

Mit Unterstützung der Europäischen Stiftung für Berufsbildung (European Training Foundation ETF) gehen Ägypten, Jordanien, Marokko und Tunesien die gemeinsame Herausforderung an, die Qualität der Bildung zu verbessern mit dem Ziel, eine neue Generation junger Menschen für den Arbeitsmarkt auszubilden.


ETF: Boosting quality in education - countries learn from each other

Egypt, Jordan, Morocco and Tunisia face the common challenge of boosting quality in education in order to prepare a new generation of young people for the labour market.

With the support of the EU’s European Training Foundation (ETF), the four countries have established good working relations. On 11 November 2008, high level representatives from ministries in each of the four countries and ETF experts will meet in Rabat, Morocco, to develop national qualification frameworks.

“National qualification frameworks can play an important role in the evolution of education because they help to link existing qualifications of different levels and types in a coherent and consistent way, based on a common set of descriptions and criteria”; says Dr Muriel Dunbar, Director of the European Training Foundation.

The national qualifications framework project emphasises the value of regional cooperation and aims to facilitate policy learning by national stakeholders. The project enables knowledge to be shared with peers from neighbouring countries and from the EU and helps to make those involved in the process familiar with the technical and policy issues that play a part in the development of NQFs.

“Egypt is striving to update its qualification system to keep up with the pace of change in its labour market and the wider economy; Jordan wishes to make its workforce more competitive and is striving to boost the quality of education; Morocco sees building an NQF as a way of revamping its entire education system; while Tunisia sees it as a means of increasing the coherence, readability and quality of its human resources system”, ETF expert Jean-Marc Castejon states.

“NQFs make for more transparent and readable education and training systems both nationally and internationally, but they are not neutral. As tools for comparing qualifications and starting reforms, they raise important questions on governance and the modernisation of qualification systems”, Castejon says.