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1. National Qualifications Framework – Specific

requirements

The National Qualifications Framework (NQF) is a description of the
interrelationship between qualifications, integrating various national
qualifications subsystems, serving greater transparency, availability and quality
of qualifications, created for the needs of the labour market and civil society.

The NQF makes it possible to relate national qualifications to the levels of the
European Qualifications Framework (EQF) and through the EQF to the levels of
qualifications in individual EU countries. In each project partner country, the
NQF is as follows:

Poland
The Polish Qualifications Framework (PQF) is the frame of reference for
qualifications awarded in Poland. There are 8 levels in PQF. Each is described

by general characteristics of the scope and complexity of the knowledge, skills
and social competences required of people with a given level of qualification.
PQF considers the characteristics typical of qualifications awarded in general
and vocational education and in higher education.
PQF:
• are created for the needs of the labour market and civil society,
• integrate various national qualifications subsystems,
• serve to increase the transparency, availability and quality of the
acquired qualifications,
• make it possible to compare and confirm the acquired qualifications

throughout Europe,
• contain a description of the hierarchical system of levels of qualifications
- each qualification is placed on one of these levels, and each national
level is assigned a corresponding level in the EQF
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The most important assumptions of the NQF:
• The learning process is separated from the certification process - different

institutions teach and test knowledge, as it is now with external
examinations at the end of primary, secondary and upper secondary
schools.
• One qualification is validated only once, in a way that would be
recognized by all employers - a chance to put an end to the practice of

1 https://www.biurokarier.umk.pl/krajowe-ramy-kwalifikacji

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