Support for the Implementation of Guinea-Bissau's National Qualifications Framework - Skills Development Webinars

The NQF Office of Guinea-Bissau (established by Order 066/GM/2024, of 22/10/2024, of the Government of Guinea-Bissau) with the support of the ACQF-II Project will hold during the month of March 2025 a cycle of SKILLS DEVELOPMENT WEBINARS, within the scope of Support for the Implementation of the National Qualifications Framework of Guinea-Bissau.
Support for the Implementation of Guinea-Bissau's National Qualifications Framework - Skills Development Webinars

The participants of this cycle of SKILLS DEVELOPMENT WEBINARS are mainly the Technicians of the NQF Working Group + Office of the Technical Group of the NQF of Guinea-Bissau and all other Stakeholders interested in the process of design and implementation of the NQF of Guinea-Bissau who represent the ministries and agencies responsible for education policies, vocational training, higher education, employment, quality assurance and recognition of qualifications, as well as social partners, sectoral councils, training centres, universities and other stakeholders.

The cycle of SKILLS DEVELOPMENT WEBINARS will be held from online platforms (Zoom or Teams) and will be guided by an ACQF II Expert, according to the following schedule. The main topics to be addressed:

  • Topic 01: Strengthening Collective Intelligence on the NQF - (05.03.2025)
  • Topic 02: Understanding the National Qualifications Catalogue - (12.03.2025)
  • Topic 03: Mapping of National Qualifications - (19.03.2025)
  • Topic 04: Codification, Approval and Registration of Qualifications - (26.03.2025)
  • Topic 05: NQF Quality Assurance - (02.04.2025)

The cycle of SKILLS DEVELOPMENT WEBINARS aims to strengthen the level of knowledge of the Technicians of the NQF Working Group + Office of the Technical Group of the NQF of Guinea-Bissau and all other Stakeholders interested in the process of design and implementation of the NQF of Guinea-Bissau.

Support material

All PPT used during the cycle of SKILLS DEVELOPMENT WEBINARS will be made available to the participants.

Contacts

Paulo Costa; Olavo Correia

  • When Mar 05, 2025 to Apr 02, 2025 (UTC / UTC0)
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Topics

Objectives

Key takeaways

Calendar: Day/Month and Time

Topic 01:

Strengthening Collective Intelligence on the NQF

This training aims to centralize and align the understanding of the NQF and its importance for Guinea-Bissau.

  • Definition and concepts

  • Objectives and functions

  • Purposes and importance in the context of vocational training and education

  • Impacts of the NQF

  • Transparency, comparability and portability of qualifications

  • Structure of the NQF (the different levels of qualification)

  • Descriptors of qualification levels

  • Criteria that define each level of qualification

  • QNQ, QSQ e QRQ

  • Impacts of the NQF

05.03.2025

(Wednesday)

12.00 – 12.45

(Bissau horas)

Topic 02

Understanding the National Qualifications Catalogue

Understand the centrality of the National Qualifications Catalog (CNQ) in the structuring of professional qualifications.

  • Organization of Qualifications

  • Definition of Qualifications

  • Qualification Levels

  • Specific, Transversal and Transferable Skills

  • Education and Experience Requirements

  • Credit and Scoring Systems

  • Validation of Skills Acquired Informally

  • Relevance to the Labor Market

  • Mobility and Lifelong Learning

  • What is a qualification?

  • Understanding the National Qualifications Catalogue

  • Status and status of new programmes and qualifications

  • Practice: analysis of two professional qualifications (RC and RF)

12.03.2025

(Wednesday)

12.00 – 12.45

(Bissau horas)

Topic 03

Mapping National Qualifications

Understand the main mechanisms for drawing up inventories of all courses/qualifications at all levels, education and training.

  • Existing qualifications: How to integrate them into the National Qualifications Catalogue (CNQ)?

  • How to take inventory of qualifications

  • Tools for collecting qualification data

  • Criteria for data collection of qualifications

19.03.2025

(Wednesday)

12.00 – 12.45

(Bissau horas)

Topic 04:

Codification, Approval and Registration of Qualifications

This training aims to create a broad understanding of the relevance of the stages of coding, approval and registration of Professional Qualifications associated with the National Qualifications Catalogue.

  • Stages and sequential approval and registration of professional qualifications

  • Importance of coding

  • Coding examples

  • Importance of approval

  • Importance of Registration

  • Some sources of records

  • Practical examples: sources of records

26.03.2025

(Wednesday)

12.00 – 12.45

(Bissau horas)

Topic 05:

NQF Quality Assurance

This training aims to understand the centrality of Quality Assurance within the scope of the NQF.

  • Key concepts of Quality Assurance

  • Quality Management vs. Quality Assurance

  • Types of quality assurance governance arrangements

  • Quality Assurance Systems: the execution phases

  • Main objectives of Quality Assurance

  • The stages of the Quality Cycle

  • Quality assurance in Higher Education

  • Quality assurance in the ETFP

  • Type of indicators associated with Quality Assurance

02.04.2025

(Wednesday)

12.00 – 12.45

(Bissau horas)