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Legislation for better qualifications General Have you mapped:
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:
Are the following aspects of qualifications regulated:
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
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
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?
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?