Regional Qualification System and Regional System of Formalization

Regional Qualification System and Regional System of Formalization and Certification of Competences 1

Route Steps Crediting of Vocational Training Organisms Regional Qualification System Educational Standards Professional Standards Regional System of Formalization and Certification of Competences Correspondent pattern between the RQS and the professions which are mainly intermediated by EC (Employment Centres) 2

Works Calendar DECEMBER NOVEMBER OCTOBER SEPTEMBER 2006 AUGUST JULY JUNE MAY APRIL MARCH FEBRUARY JANUARY DECEMBER NOVEMBER OCTOBER SEPTEMBER AUGUST 2005 JULY JUNE MAY APRIL MARCH FEBRUARY JANUARY 2004 RQS Methodological System Description of the professional standards of the 100 qualifications Training Standards Regional System of Certification Source process 3

Works Calendar DECEMBER NOVEMBER OCTOBER SEPTEMBER AUGUST JULY JUNE MAY APRIL MARCH FEBRUARY JANUARY DECEMBER NOVEMBER OCTOBER SEPTEMBER AUGUST 2007 JULY JUNE MAY APRIL MARCH FEBRUARY JANUARY 2006 Regional System of Certification Description of professional and training standards of additional qualifications (apprenticeship) Source Process 4

Regional Qualification System 5

THE WORK ROUTE FOR THE DEFINITION OF THE RQS Revision of the Regional List of the Recognized Qualifications based on the following criteria: Low recoursing Obsolescence No Attendance Stationing/Interruption Superimposition Analysing the educational projects referring to any qualification Comparison with the researches performed by different bilateral organisms (industrycraftmanship- small and medium enterprises–cooperative enterprises-tourism-transport 6 agricolture)

THE WORK ROUTE FOR THE DEFINITION OF THE RQS - continuing Comparison with other European countries qualifications Deepening in experiments and researches performed in Emilia-Romagna Analysing other Regions works concerning this topic Check on the professional educational system qualifications Direct survey : interviews to experts 7

PARTS OF THE RQS List of qualifications (the “inventory”): at present consisting of 112 qualifications organized into 33 professional areas Qualifications description (the “professional standards”) Process in order to update and maintain the qualifications and the competences placed into the archives (the “source process”) 8

The participants 100 experts appointed by the social parts Regional officials + + 50 experts appointed by the vocational training organisms Expert consultants for each of the 33 identified professional areas Three half days of discussion in order to confirm the qualification professional standards in each area = about 180 meetings Three half days of discussion in order to confirm the qualification training standards in each area 9

Points out and assures that the individual owns all the typical competences of a defined professional figure IT’S A FORMAL CERTIFICATE It’s given to the individual the RQS QUALIFICATION is: A group of working roles, operating on working processes which are similar and characterized by professional homogeneous competences It can be registered into the “Libretto formativo individuale” (individual educational booklet) It’s assigned through a PROCEDURE REGULATED by the Region It can be obtained through the addition of partial certifications (certifications of “competence unit” which can be gained through different ways of learning, during different periods of life) 10

THE QUALIFICATION AS A “JOINT” BETWEEN THE VOCATIONAL TRAINING AND THE LABOUR SYSTEM A qualification reflects professional figures which “can be trained” and are “present” in the labour world. It’s a “joint” between vocational training and labour system. It’s not “restrictive” neither to the first nor to the other system ü A qualification is not a training course ü The RQS is not a training supply system ü A qualification is not a working role ü The SRQ doesn’t represent the system of working roles inside the enterprises/organizations A qualification can be a reference point for both one system and the other 11

AN INVENTORY OF QUALIFICATIONS WHICH CONSISTS OF PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS OF COMPETENCES Professional figures which are parts of the regional economic and productive system Professional figures which are remarkable for specific sectional policies in the Region Professional figures in expectation of development As a professional figure we mean a group of working roles, acting on similar working processes or consisting of homogeneous professional competences 12

AT PRESENT THE REGIONAL INVENTORY IS CONSISTING OF 112 QUALIFICATIONS REFERRED TO 33 PROFESSIONAL AREAS Among these qualifications we can distinguish, (in order to define the training standards) : 26 Admittance to a professional area 69 Deepening/specialization 17 Either admittance and deepening 13

INVENTORY OF QUALIFICATIONS Updated to December 2007 14

INVENTORY OF QUALIFICATIONS Updated to December 2007 15

INVENTORY OF QUALIFICATIONS Updated to December 2007 16

INVENTORY OF QUALIFICATIONS Updated to December 2007 17

INVENTORY OF QUALIFICATIONS Updated to December 2007 18

INVENTORY OF QUALIFICATIONS Updated to December 2007 19

INVENTORY OF QUALIFICATIONS Updated to December 2007 20

The proposers THE SOURCE PROCESS Bilateral Organisms Social Partners Vocational Training Organisms Educational Institutions The FLOW and the PHASES Technical Inquiry, interviews NO 1. Proposition QUALIFICATION? YES Qualification Description Subcommittee CRT NO 2. Inquiry 3. Check up Confirmed? YES 4. Approval 21

The Regional System of “Formalization and Certification of Competences” 22

A SYSTEM OF FORMALIZATION AND CERTIFICATION OF COMPETENCES RECEIVERS OBJECT With many new elements PROCESS ORGANISMS WHICH CARRY OUT THE PROCESS 23

Person who’s got a working experience or various types of certificates (formal or informal) interested in obtaining a qualilfication THE PROCESS Person who’s attending a course Acquiring the demand individual consulence Does he/she need an individual consulence? ye s no Check through evidences Is he/she supposed to take the exam? INVENTORY yes no Check through exam Administrative fulfilments to delivery documents Qualification or UC Certificate Form about Abilities and knowledges no Is he/she interested in obtaining a qualification or a Competence Unit Certificate? y e s 24