MQC moves to new premises
The Malta Qualifications Council (MQC) has moved out of the Education Ministry in Floriana to larger premises. This move was necessary due to the recent increase in staff which included the addition of a senior manager in charge of assessment and...
The Malta Qualifications Council (MQC) has moved out of the Education Ministry in Floriana to larger premises. This move was necessary due to the recent increase in staff which included the addition of a senior manager in charge of assessment and accreditation, and two managers in charge of office administration and communications.
The MQC was set up in 2006 to build up a new culture for qualifications in Malta. Hundreds of stakeholders had the opportunity to follow the establishment of a European Qualifications Framework (EQF) as well as to contribute towards a Malta Qualifications Framework, which is now in line with the EQF. The next important steps will be to legislate this process locally and to embark on the laborious process to validate, recognise and certify all informal and non-formal learning and to design occupational standards matching qualifications.
A consultation process on the National Qualifications Framework (NQF) was launched on November 1, 2006. A draft framework was presented in which MQC designed a process through which compulsory, vocational, higher and adult education could be interlocked in a lifelong learning process.
Two strands were identified: that which departs from compulsory education and leads to higher academic education; and one other strand with vocational education as a point of departure leading towards higher professional degrees.
Six months of nationwide consultation led to the design of the National Qualifications Framework and its official presentation in June 2007. The presentation was supported by four draft policy documents entitled Valuing All Learning. A fifth policy document on the Validation of Informal and Non-Formal Learning will be published shortly.
In October 2007, a national conference entitled Towards a National Learning Area for Vocational Qualification was held during which three proposed cumulative passports (for NQF Levels 1, 2 and 3) were presented by the MQC as an effective tool for the recognition and accreditation of all learning. MQC and the Institute of Tourism Studies (ITS) signed the first official protocol assigning levels to all ITS qualifications based on learning outcomes, occupational standards and quality assurance standards. In early December, MQC and the Guidance and Counselling Services Unit of the former Education Division launched a set of four workbooks for students ending compulsory education entitled Career Choice in which the National Qualifications Framework was introduced as part of students' preparation for employability.
The new offices are located at 16/18, Tower Promenade, Sta Lu?ija SLC 1019.
The MQC was set up in 2006 to build up a new culture for qualifications in Malta. Hundreds of stakeholders had the opportunity to follow the establishment of a European Qualifications Framework (EQF) as well as to contribute towards a Malta Qualifications Framework, which is now in line with the EQF. The next important steps will be to legislate this process locally and to embark on the laborious process to validate, recognise and certify all informal and non-formal learning and to design occupational standards matching qualifications.
A consultation process on the National Qualifications Framework (NQF) was launched on November 1, 2006. A draft framework was presented in which MQC designed a process through which compulsory, vocational, higher and adult education could be interlocked in a lifelong learning process.
Two strands were identified: that which departs from compulsory education and leads to higher academic education; and one other strand with vocational education as a point of departure leading towards higher professional degrees.
Six months of nationwide consultation led to the design of the National Qualifications Framework and its official presentation in June 2007. The presentation was supported by four draft policy documents entitled Valuing All Learning. A fifth policy document on the Validation of Informal and Non-Formal Learning will be published shortly.
In October 2007, a national conference entitled Towards a National Learning Area for Vocational Qualification was held during which three proposed cumulative passports (for NQF Levels 1, 2 and 3) were presented by the MQC as an effective tool for the recognition and accreditation of all learning. MQC and the Institute of Tourism Studies (ITS) signed the first official protocol assigning levels to all ITS qualifications based on learning outcomes, occupational standards and quality assurance standards. In early December, MQC and the Guidance and Counselling Services Unit of the former Education Division launched a set of four workbooks for students ending compulsory education entitled Career Choice in which the National Qualifications Framework was introduced as part of students' preparation for employability.
The new offices are located at 16/18, Tower Promenade, Sta Lu?ija SLC 1019.