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Qualifications Framework of the European Higher Education Area

Cover of the qualificiations framework documentThe overarching Qualifications Framework for the European Higher Education Area derives its distinctive purposes from the objectives expressed through the Bologna Process: international transparency, recognition, and mobility.

International recognition of qualifications builds on transparency. The overarching Qualification Framework, provides a common understanding of the outcomes of a programme as represented by the qualification (diploma). This contrasts with a mere assertion of comparability. The overarching Qualification Framework greatly enhances the usefulness of qualifications across the EHEA.

The overarching Qualification Framework was developed by the higher education stakeholders across Europe.

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Qualifications Framework of the European Higher Education Area

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European Degrees

Higher education programmes award degrees that should refer to a level in the overarching Qualifications Framework of the European Higher Education Area, which organises higher education in three sequential levels or cycles: the so-called Bachelor-Master-Doctorate system

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