Qualifications

The main idea behind the Bologna Process was to provide a framework for reforms and policies that would help increase the compatibility and comparability of all national higher education systems in Europe. Thus, the participating states have adopted a number of key reforms in higher education, marked by changes in legislation and reconsideration of the principles underlying the educational process for a knowledge-based society.


Implementing a National Qualifications Framework was taken up by the ministers responsible for education in the signatory states of the Bologna Process at the Bergen meeting in 2005, when they stated:We adopt the general qualifications framework in SEIS, comprising the three cycles (including the possibility of intermediate qualifications in the context of national regulations), generic descriptors for each cycle based on learning outcomes, competencies and the distribution of credits for the first and second cycle. We are committed to developing by 2010 the national qualifications frameworks compatible with the general qualifications framework of the European Higher Education Area (ESIS) and to move on to them by 2007 at the latest. further development of the general European qualifications framework”.

After it was officially adopted in February 2008 European Qualifications Framework, in Romania, with the adoption National Education Law, in February 2011, was established National Authority for Qualifications (ANC).

ANC has responsibilities in ensuring the compatibility of the national qualifications system with other existing qualification systems at European and international level, in the elaboration of proposals to the Ministry of Education and Scientific Research on normative acts regarding the national qualifications system and human resources development, including vocational training. adults.

right study on the implementation of the Bologna Process from the perspective of students conducted by ANOSR, The National Qualifications Framework should be implemented respecting all the development needs of students and at the same time their needs to adapt to the labor market and, with its implementation, lead to a reform of the current curriculum, carried out with the involvement of students and employers. Qualification can be defined as "the formal result of a process of assessment and validation, which is obtained when a competent body establishes that a person has achieved, as a result of learning, results at certain pre-established standards". The National Qualifications Framework has established eight qualification levels that can be acquired through the formal education and training system in Romania and by recognizing the learning outcomes acquired through learning in non-formal and informal contexts, from the perspective of lifelong learning.