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Overview of the QCF 

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The QCF (Qualifications Credit Framework) is a new way of recognising skills and qualifications. It does this by awarding credit for units (small steps of learning) and enables learners to gain qualifications at their own pace along flexible routes.

The QCF has four main aims:

  1. To ensure a wider range of achievements can be recognised within a more inclusive qualifications framework
  2. To establish a qualifications system that is more responsive to individual and employer needs
  3. To establish a simpler qualifications framework that is easier for all users to understand
  4. To reduce the burden of bureaucracy in the accreditation and assessment of qualifications.

Watch our video below that explains: the QCF migration of NQF; and the QCF's structure, funding, operation and IT:

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