Lost opportunity : what a credit framework would have added to the National Qualification Frameworks

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Author	GOSLING, David
Title	Lost opportunity : what a credit framework would have added to the National Qualification Frameworks
Publication year	2001
Source/Footnote	In: Higher education quarterly. - 55 (2001) 3, S. 270 - 284
Inventory number	14329
Keywords	Ausland : Großbritannien : Hochschulwesen allgemein ; Ausland : Großbritannien : Studium, Studenten, Lehre ; Qualitätssicherung
Abstract	This paper outlines the recent work of the Southern England Consortium, SEEC, and the principles to which it is committed. It is argued that the failure of the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) to grasp the nettle of credit in the recently published National Qualification Framework (NQF) is a blow, although not a fatal one, to the achievement of the objectives which SEEC is attempting to achieve on behalf of its member institutions. In particular, the opportunity to improve access, increase flexibility and support lifelong learning through the use of credit in the NQF has been lost. The value of the concept of level in a credit framework is defended and contrasted with the use of ?qualification level? in the NQF. (HRK / Abstract übernommen)