1 Regional Qualification System and Regional System of Formalization and Certification of Competences

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Regional Qualification Systemand

Regional System of Formalization and Certification of Competences

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Route StepsRoute StepsRoute StepsRoute Steps

Professional Standards

Regional System of Formalization and Certification of Competences

Regional Qualification System

Crediting of Vocational Training

Organisms

Educational Standards

Correspondent pattern between the RQS and the professions

which are mainly intermediated by EC (Employment Centres)

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2004 2005 2006

Description of the professional standards of the 100 qualifications

Training Standards

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Description of professional and training standards of additional qualifications (apprenticeship)

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Regional Qualification System

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THE WORK ROUTE FOR THE DEFINITION OF THE RQSTHE WORK ROUTE FOR THE DEFINITION OF THE RQSTHE WORK ROUTE FOR THE DEFINITION OF THE RQSTHE WORK ROUTE FOR THE DEFINITION OF THE RQS

Revision of the Regional List of the Recognized Qualifications based on the following criteria:

Low recoursing

Obsolescence

No Attendance

Stationing/Interruption

Superimposition

Analysing the educational projects referring to any qualification

Comparison with the researches performed by different bilateral organisms (industry-craftmanship- small and medium enterprises–co-operative enterprises-tourism-transport-agricolture)

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THE WORK ROUTE FOR THE DEFINITION OF THE RQS - continuingTHE WORK ROUTE FOR THE DEFINITION OF THE RQS - continuingTHE WORK ROUTE FOR THE DEFINITION OF THE RQS - continuingTHE WORK ROUTE FOR THE DEFINITION OF THE RQS - continuing

Comparison with other European countries qualifications

Analysing other Regions works concerning this topic

Check on the professional educational system qualifications

Deepening in experiments and researches performed in Emilia-Romagna

Direct survey : interviews to experts

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PARTS OF THE RQSPARTS OF THE RQSPARTS OF THE RQSPARTS OF THE RQS

List of qualifications (the “inventory”): at present consisting

of 112 qualifications organized into 33 professional areas

List of qualifications (the “inventory”): at present consisting

of 112 qualifications organized into 33 professional areas

Qualifications description (the “professional standards”)Qualifications description (the “professional standards”)

Process in order to update and maintain the qualifications

and the competences placed into the archives (the “source

process”)

Process in order to update and maintain the qualifications

and the competences placed into the archives (the “source

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The participantsThe participantsThe participantsThe participants

100 experts appointed by the social parts

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50 experts appointed by the vocational training organisms

for each of the 33 identified professional areas

Three half days of discussion in order to confirm

the qualification professional standards in each area about 180

meetings

Three half days of discussion in order to confirm the qualification training standards in each area

Regional officials

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Expert consultants

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It can be registered into the

“Libretto formativo

individuale” (individual

educational booklet)

IT’S A FORMAL CERTIFICATE

It’s given to the individual

Points out and assures that the individual owns all the typical competences of a

defined professional figure

It’s assigned through a PROCEDURE

REGULATED by the Region

It can be obtained through the addition

of partial certifications (certifications of

“competence unit” which can be gained

through different ways of learning,

during different periods of life)

the RQSthe RQS QUALIFICATION is:QUALIFICATION is:A group of working roles,

operating on working processes which are similar

and characterized by professional homogeneous

competences

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It’s a “joint” between vocational training and labour system.It’s not “restrictive” neither to the first nor to the other system

A qualification is not a training course

The RQS is not a training supply system

A qualification is not a working role The SRQ doesn’t represent the

system of working roles inside the enterprises/organizations

A qualification can be a reference point for both one system and the other

THE QUALIFICATION AS A “JOINT” THE QUALIFICATION AS A “JOINT” BETWEEN THE VOCATIONAL TRAINING AND THE LABOUR BETWEEN THE VOCATIONAL TRAINING AND THE LABOUR

SYSTEMSYSTEM

THE QUALIFICATION AS A “JOINT” THE QUALIFICATION AS A “JOINT” BETWEEN THE VOCATIONAL TRAINING AND THE LABOUR BETWEEN THE VOCATIONAL TRAINING AND THE LABOUR

SYSTEMSYSTEMA qualification reflects professional figures which “can be trained” and are “present” in the labour world.

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Professional figures which are parts of the regional economic and productive system

Professional figures which are remarkable for specific sectional policies in the Region

Professional figures in expectation of development

Professional figures which are parts of the regional economic and productive system

Professional figures which are remarkable for specific sectional policies in the Region

Professional figures in expectation of development

AN INVENTORY OF QUALIFICATIONSWHICH CONSISTS OF

PROFESSIONAL STANDARDSOF COMPETENCES

As a professional figure we mean a group of working roles, acting on similar working processes or consisting of homogeneous professional competencesAs a professional figure we mean a group of working roles, acting on similar working processes or consisting of homogeneous professional competences

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AT PRESENTTHE REGIONAL INVENTORY

IS CONSISTING OF112 QUALIFICATIONS

REFERRED TO33 PROFESSIONAL AREAS

Admittance to a professional areaAdmittance to a professional area

Among these qualifications we can distinguish, (in order to define the training standards) :

Deepening/specializationDeepening/specialization

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Either admittance and deepeningEither admittance and deepening17

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INVENTORY OF QUALIFICATIONSINVENTORY OF QUALIFICATIONSUpdated to December 2007Updated to December 2007


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THE SOURCE PROCESSTHE SOURCE PROCESS THE SOURCE PROCESSTHE SOURCE PROCESS

1. Proposition

Social PartnersSocial Partners

Bilateral OrganismsBilateral Organisms

VocationalTrainingOrganisms

VocationalTrainingOrganisms

Educational InstitutionsEducational Institutions

Technical Inquiry, interviews

QUALIFICATION?

The FLOW and the The FLOW and the PHASESPHASES

2.Inquiry

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Qualification Description

YES

Subcommittee CRT 3. Check up

Confirmed?NO

YES 4. Approval

The proposersThe proposers

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The Regional System of“Formalization and Certification of

Competences”

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With many

new elements

With many

new elementsOBJECT

RECEIVERS

PROCESS

ORGANISMS WHICH CARRY OUT THE PROCESS

A SYSTEM OF FORMALIZATION AND CERTIFICATION OF

COMPETENCES

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THE PROCESSPerson who’s

attending a course

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no

Administrative fulfilmentsto delivery documents

Form aboutAbilities and knowledges

Is he/she supposed to take the exam?

Does he/she need an individual consulence?

yes no

yes no

Is he/she interested in obtaining a qualification or a Competence Unit Certificate?

Acquiring the demand

Checkthrough evidences

Check through exam

Administrative fulfilmentsto delivery documents

Qualificationor UC

Certificate

individual consulence

INVENTORY INVENTORY

Person who’s got a working experience or various types of certificates (formal or informal)

interested in obtaining a qualilfication

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1 Regional Qualification System and Regional System of Formalization and Certification of Competences