One of the main missions of the university-market cooperation is to make the qualifications offered at universities relevant to the market needs. Thus, a workshop for the design of a methodology and procedure for sectorial qualifications framework (SQF) development drawing on the Armenian National Qualifications Framework (ANQF) and the CEDEFOP (2010) methodology and the good practice in EU countries has taken place in Graz, Austria – hosted by WUS by 20th to 24th April 2015.
The sectors in focus of the ARARAT Armenian Coordination Agency ‘UNIVERSITY – EMPLOYER’ are economics, engineering and pedagogy – targeted for pilots, since those are the professions that are most demanding in Armenia and are in urgent need of revision.
An SQF operationalization Committee, including EU and Armenian experts in respective fields, students, alumni and employers were established to follow the following stages of development:
(a) conceptualization and design: during this stage the Committee will define a general concept and main policy objectives of the future SQFs for BA and MA in engineering, economics and pedagogics;
(b) consultation and testing: SQF proposals will be presented to and discussed within a broader group of stakeholders and an external peer-review of the SQFs will be undertaken by EU partners to ensure comparability with the European standards;
(c) official adoption: to ensure sustainability of the developments the SQFs will be adopted by the Ministry of Education and Science of Armenia through an official decree of the Minister;
(d) practical implementation; this stage will move the framework towards full scale applied practice and the universities will integrate the new structures and methods.
It was important being next to our Armenian friends and colleagues during the 100 Years Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day by the 24th of April.
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