1. Case study Serbia NQF Jelena Jakovljevic
INSTITUTE FOR IMPROVEMENT OF EDUCATION
Center for Vocational and Art Education

2. Chronology of the ETF-NQF project activities
Basic report on the NQF
Workshops - Ljubljana (April 2003); Ohrid (September 2003); Sarajevo (May 2004); Turin (December 2004)
Three focus groups
Draft of “Green paper”
Three meetings/seminars
Final report

3. Basic report on the NQF
Unemployment is around 30% - no liable date from LM.
Employers are not satisfied with existing qualifications.
Exams are developed, realized and assessed within the schools and its teachers.
Transfer from III-years to IV-years of schooling is possible with passed exams.
After secondary education it is possible to advance.
There are no certificates in continuing VET and non-formal sector that are recognized in the system.
Existing qualifications are in Nomenclature (8 levels) which is not compatible with ISCO (5 levels).

4. Three focus groups Topics:
Sarajevo - Belgrade
Topics:
“Connection between needs on LM and supply from VET schools”
“Educational outcomes of qualifications for technician and trained worker”
“Social partners’ involvement in development of qualifications”
The results are:
Partner’s development of relevant draft documents;
Increased employers’ awareness and competencies for expressing the needs and demands toward educational system;
Development of the system for information exchange;
Monitoring and researching the field of qualifications – toward EQF;
Modern educational programs should be flexible and defined by learning outcomes – quality to be measured by levels of students’ achievements of outcomes/competencies;
Basis for creating modern educational programs to be the NQS developed through partnership of all relevant stakeholders.

5. Three meetings-seminars
In the final report has been expressed that those
meetings were:
Thematic unity that will have to be the subject for different stakeholders in forthcoming period.
Huge challenge = NQF/EQF, Nomenclature influence, accreditation and certification, relation between non-formal education and qualifications.
Further development of NQF and its implementation will be covered with CARDS VET II and new ETF projects.

6. Three meetings-seminars
Topics:
“Introduction in NQF, reference levels, quality and European
dimension”
“Partnership and cooperation in the field of
establishing the NQS”
“Presumptions for implementation of NQF” (September 2005)
Participants:
ML, MoES, ME, members of NEC, NES, IIE (VET Center), AssEmp, ChC, Unions, VET schools, Institute for statistics, Organizations for non-formal, SME Agency, Center for company training … = CRITICAL MASS

7. Three meetings-seminars - Discussion parts -
It has been concluded that it is needed:
NQF to be an integral system regardless the level of education;
Future institution for NQF (maybe the VET Center), beside approving, to deal with the aspect of science and technology development, analysis and predictions of sectors’ development;
To define clear vision of NQF and involve relevant stakeholders;
To make NQF terminology clear and transparent;

8. Three meetings-seminars - Discussion parts -
else needed:
To develop NQF connected with the activities regarding Copenhagen process;
To revise and innovate National Nomenclature in close connection with previously defined NQF (toward EQF – demanding task – expertise and time), but started and financed from relevant institutions;
To signed Memorandum on common understanding and clear responsibilities between key stakeholders;
To revise educational clusters together with VET School Associations, but in accordance with recommended and then developed NQF;

9. Three meetings-seminars - Discussion parts -
more needed:
To develop and then sign the Resolution of NQF development;
To redefine (transfer) educational profiles into occupational standards that will be nationally approved and will become basis for further curriculum development;
To recognize the need for statistical evidences and analysis - early to start from adjustments with European systems;
To give priority to NQF development and to coordinate activities between international (CARDS) projects;

10. Three meetings-seminars - Discussion parts -
and finally needed:
To keep on working on NQF development within the whole system – from the lowest to the highest level;
To adjust the new NQF with recommendations and attitudes defined in European documents dealing with this issue in respect of recently existing process of joining EU.

11. “Good luck NQF Serbia”