Recognition Of Higher Education Qualifications PDF Download

The Brisbane Communique emerged from the 2006 meeting of Asia-Pacific Education Ministers and senior officials in Brisbane. Ministers agreed to collaborate on a number of broad goals to encourage and facilitate regional student and academic mobility and exchange, and to address barriers to these activities. This study has found that while there is a growing interest in, and demand for, recognition of higher education qualifications in the Asia-Pacific region, together with an understanding that regional cooperation is vital to facilitate the international mobility of students and workers, there is relatively slow progress - particularly in the area of recognition of qualifications between countries. Transparency is a major barrier with information about educational structures and systems, and the content, duration and nature of qualifications difficult to obtain for the purposes of comparison. Many countries within the region have not developed a National Qualifications Framework as the basis for qualifications recognition. There also seems to be some difference in the level of understanding about the purpose and nature of such frameworks and the difference between a broad âqualifications systemâ, and national framework. [p. 3, ed].