{"id":382,"date":"2018-12-27T18:12:48","date_gmt":"2018-12-27T18:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.vocationalqualification.net\/?p=382"},"modified":"2018-12-28T15:25:23","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T15:25:23","slug":"equal-class-engineers-qualified-in-higher-non-university-vet-institutions-providing-arguments-and-evidence-for-nqf-eqf-classification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vocationalqualification.net\/?p=382","title":{"rendered":"EQUAL-CLASS: Engineers qualified in higher non-university VET institutions \u2013 providing arguments and evidence for NQF\/EQF classification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EQUAL-CLASS aimed to study qualifications in the field of mechatronics, electrical engineering\/electronics that can be obtained in higher non-university VET institutions or comparable institutions in Austria, Switzerland, Germany, Lithuania, and Portugal. The qualifications were examined from three different perspectives: curricula, students and graduates. Additionally, the project investigated to what extent professional experience gained following the completion of a relevant qualification, and the recognition of non-formal\/informal learning, enables individuals to achieve another \u2013 higher \u2013 qualification level in relation to the EQF\/NQF (European Qualifications Framework\/National Qualifications Framework). The Competence Marix \u2018Mechatronics\u2019 (VQTS project) and the Competence Matrix \u2018Electronics\/Electrical Engineering\u2019 (VQTS II project) were used for comparing qualifications.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.equal-class-eqf.eu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EQUAL-CLASS aimed to study qualifications in the field of mechatronics, electrical engineering\/electronics that can be obtained in higher non-university VET institutions or comparable institutions in Austria, Switzerland, Germany, Lithuania, and Portugal. The qualifications were examined from three different perspectives: curricula, students and graduates. Additionally, the project investigated to what extent professional experience gained following the completion of a relevant qualification, and the recognition of non-formal\/informal learning, enables individuals to achieve another \u2013 higher \u2013 qualification level in relation to the EQF\/NQF (European Qualifications Framework\/National Qualifications Framework). The Competence Marix \u2018Mechatronics\u2019 (VQTS project) and the Competence Matrix \u2018Electronics\/Electrical Engineering\u2019 (VQTS II project) were used for comparing qualifications. http:\/\/www.equal-class-eqf.eu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":383,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vocationalqualification.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vocationalqualification.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vocationalqualification.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vocationalqualification.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vocationalqualification.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vocationalqualification.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":384,"href":"https:\/\/vocationalqualification.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions\/384"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vocationalqualification.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vocationalqualification.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vocationalqualification.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vocationalqualification.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}