Federal Minister Elisabeth Gehrer achieved the appointment of a European expert committee on the European Qualifications Framework (EQF) at the Conference of Education Ministers in Vienna today, Thursday. This “technical working group” will collate the requirements of the individual EU Member States. This will mainly concern the classification of an individual's personal knowledge and skills in the eight levels of the EQF. The eight educational categories will extend from ordinary worker to university professor. “The common working group established today will make Europe’s education systems more transparent and facilitate lifelong learning. In this way, we will be able to move the European Qualifications Framework forward much more rapidly and avoid unnecessary bureaucracy”, Gehrer declared.
The minister also emphasized that it is important to document informal learning. “At present, an individual's abilities can only be measured on the basis of diplomas gained. The EQF will soon make it possible for people to have the abilities and competencies acquired in one Member State in the course of their professional life recognised in other Member States. This will give a great boost to personal mobility”, she concluded.
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