A Caribbean Qualifications Framework, with a view to creating a seamless education and training system for CARICOM member states is being developed.
That’s according to Dr Ruby Alleyne, the new president of the Caribbean Area Net for Quality Assurance in Tertiary Education and lecturer at the University of Trinidad & Tobago Dr Ruby Alleyne who was on island this week facilitating an evaluator’s workshop hosted by the National Accreditation Board.
“This CARICOM Qualifications Framework it’s being called is going to be a ten level framework,” Dr Alleyne indicated earlier this week.
This ten level framework, she explained, spans from the basic entry level to the education system which is primary, right through secondary, including technical, vocational, education and training and going straight up to the doctoral level.
“It creates a seamless education and training system so that we can plan for and monitor the progression of any CARICOM citizen, from the entry into education right to the highest level that he or she wants to achieve”.
This Caribbean Qualifications Framework will therefore standardize the requirements for different qualifications within a country and across the region.
This is necessary because at the moment, “we have a situation where a certificate in Dominica by one institution may not be the same as a certificate offered by another institution in Dominica, or one offered in Trinidad & Tobago, or St Lucia”.
Thus, the CARICOM qualification’s framework “will ensure that when something called a certificate is offered in one territory, it is going to be comparable to a certificate offered in another territory”.
It will also ensure that the person who holds that certificate has the same kind of skills and competencies and is able to do the same thing.
“So that workers who are certified at each level can move freely throughout the region with the confidence that the skills that they carry have the same kind of value,” is the overall goal of the framework, Dr Alleyne noted.
Source-Dominica Vibes News
