Under the aegis of the Bologna process, a working group has completed a report which concerns the elaboration of a Framework for Qualifications of the European Higher Education Area as called for by Ministers for higher education in the Berlin Communiqué in September 2003.  The report was considered and agreed to by Ministers when they met in Bergen in May 2005.  Please click on the link below in order to view the full report.

http://www.bologna-bergen2005.no/Docs/00-Main_doc/050218_QF_EHEA.pdf

Ireland has been invited to undertake a pilot project of the self-certification of the Compatibility of the Irish National Framework of Qualifications with the Framework for Qualifications of the European Higher Education Area.

A document has been prepared setting out an initial draft Irish response in relation to the criteria and the procedures established in the report of the Bologna Framework Working group which was adopted by European Ministers for higher education in Bergen in May 2005.

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This document has been agreed by the steering committee established for this purpose.The membership of the steering committee is as follows:

• Sjur Bergan, Head of the Department of Higher Education and History Teaching, Council of Europe
• Bryan Maguire, Higher Education and Training Awards Council
• Frank McMahon, Dublin Institute of Technology (alternate, Dr. Tom Duff)
• Jim Murray , Qualifications Authority
• Seán Ó Foghlú , Qualifications Authority, Chairperson of Steering Committee
• Lewis Purser , Irish Universities Association
• Robert Wagenaar, University of Groningen , joint co-ordinator of the Tuning project .

The steering committee is publishing this document in June 2006 with a view to the consideration of the document by stakeholders.On behalf of the steering committee, the Qualifications Authority is distributing this draft to stakeholders.The steering committee hosted a workshop in the Davenport Hotel in Dublin on the morning of 3 October 2006 .  Please click on the following links to view presentations from the workshop:

Jim Murray, National Qualifications Authority of Ireland
Bryan Maguire, Higher Education and Training Awards Council and Lewis Purser, Irish Universities Association 
Mogens Berg, Chairperson of Working Group which developed the Framework

Please click here for a report on the workshop

Stakeholders are invited to make submissions in advance of the planned workshop.All such submissions will be published on this website.

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List of submissions received