Continuing Education

Understanding qualifications from different countries is complicated. That is why the European Union developed the European Qualifications Framework (EQF) in 2008 as a reference tool. Each country uses the EQF as the basis for developing its own national qualifications framework (NQF). The various reference levels in each NQF are then mapped to those found in the EQF. In Switzerland, there are two NQFs: the National Qualifications Framework for Vocational and Professional Qualifications (NQF VPQ) and the Qualifications Framework in Swiss Higher Education (nqf.ch-HS).