Qualifications frameworks National and European qualifications frameworks are being established in order to increase the transparency and comparability of qualifications.
A qualifications framework is a systematic description of qualification levels and types within a given education system, mainly based on a description of learning outcomes.
Qualifications frameworks increase the transparency and comparability of qualifications and may thereby
•facilitate credit transfer and mobility on a national and international scale
•facilitate recognition of foreign qualifications
•make the degree structures more transparent
•improve the basis for educational planning and evaluation.
In higher education, there is a Danish as well as a European qualifications framework. The European Union has introduced a European Qualifications Framework encompassing all levels of education, and a Danish Qualifications Framework for Lifelong Learning has been put in place (detailed information about this will be published here shortly).
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As a result of reforms in the late 1980s, Danish higher education has switched from a one-tier qualification structure to a two-tier structure with Bachelor's, Master's (candidatus) and PhD degrees. Before then, all university study programmes lasted between 4 and 6 ½ years, and led to the award of the candidatus (candidata) degree (Master's degree).
From 1988, students completing 3 years of a candidatus programme were awarded the Bachelor's degree and could use the title B.A. (Humanities, Theology, Social Science) or B.S. (Natural Science, Health Science).
The 1993 university reform introduced a general bachelor degree structure. As a result, almost all university programmes now consist of a bachelor programme (BA/BSc), a candidatus programme and a PhD programme. The bachelor programme constitutes a complete programme in itself, but most Danish students still continue in a candidatus programme.
As a result of this new degree structure, the 4-year cand.phil. degree within the Humanities was abandoned in 1995/96.
Subsequent legislation has established the structure based on two main cycles in all university disciplines. The most recent arrangements in this context and linked to the Bologna process are specified in the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation's Order No. 338 of 6 May 2004 on university Bachelor's and Master's programmes, which was issued under the Universities Act of May 2003, and the June 2004 Ministry of Culture Order on education in the academies of music and the Opera Academy.
The Bachelor/candidatus structure applies to Roskilde and Aalborg universities as well, even though these institutions offer certain special features. At Roskilde University, a bachelor programme consists of a 2-year general studies programme (basisuddannelse) in the Humanities, the Social Sciences, or the Natural Sciences followed by a 1-year specialised degree programme. At Aalborg University, the social science and technology & science bachelor programmes start with a 1-year general studies programme (basisuddannelse). At Aalborg University, there is also a special 1-year cand.phil. programme after completion of the bachelor programme in social science.
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