National qualifications framework

47 countries participating in the Bologna Process are committed to producing a national qualifications framework.

Regional accreditation bodies are planned to assess qualifications for equivalency, complementary to the free movement of persons.

To this end, the member states have concluded the Agreement on Accreditation for Education in Medical and other Health Professions.

Since 2005, the member organizations of CANTA have been working together to ensure a uniformed level of certified skilled labour under the Caricom Single Market and Economy (CSME) and CANTA itself has established a regional certification scheme that awards the Caribbean Vocational Qualification (CVQ),[8] which is to replace NVQs and national TVET certifications.

[9] At the February 9–10, 2007 meeting of the Regional Coordinating Mechanism for Technical and Vocational Education and Training, officials discussed arrangements for the award of the CVQ which was approved by the Council for Human and Social Development (COHSOD) in October 2006.

This qualification will be accessible to persons already in the workforce as well as students in secondary schools across the Caribbean region.

Candidates are expected to demonstrate competence in attaining occupational standards developed by practitioners, industry experts and employers.

These are: CVQs are awarded to those candidates who would have met the required standards in all of the prescribed units of study.

Text taken from Level-setting and recognition of learning outcomes: The use of level descriptors in the twenty-first century​, 10, 12-13, Keevey, James; Chakroun, Borhene, UNESCO.

A graph mapping out the National Qualification Frameworks (NQF) and how they relate to different educational options within the South African educational system in 2017. NQFs are a key component of the South African higher education system since being implemented in 1995 and is administered by the South African Qualifications Authority .