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Qualification Credit Framework

Ballsbridge university adopted the QCF  as good  method of recognizing credits earned on vocational learning or distance education and self base learning .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.

The QCF system is based on units which have credit value and levels (from Entry Level 0 to Level 8). One credit roughly equals 10 learning hours which allows the learners to evaluate how much time they will need to gain the desired qualification. The QCF system gives awards at any difficulty level from 1 to 8 which is due to the fact that it reveals the size of qualification and not its difficulty level. The latter is indicated by the title of qualification which, however, also reveals the size of the qualification and its subject.


Ballsbridge Qualification Framework

BQF is a standard publish by the Board of quality standards to recognize credits earned at educational institutions  and professional education worldwide. Each qualification is matched to a level within the framework. All our BU qualifications  recognized at levels with the framework. The BQF is an equivalent of QCF,NVQs,EQF and National Qualification framework in other countries.

Bachelor degree   BQF credits   480 -  equivalent of ECTS 240
Masters degrees    BQF  credits  180 - 
equivalent of ECTS 90
Doctorate degrees BQF  credits   240 to 540  - equivalent of ECTS 120 to 270

Click on the Board of Quality Standards for more information.


Credits transfer

Framework

The basic framework adopted is of three cycles of higher education qualification. As outlined in the Bergen Declaration of 2005, the cycles are defined in terms of qualifications and ECTS credits, which BU embraces along with the other signatories:


  • 1st cycle: typically 180−240 ECTS credits, awarding a Bachelor's degree.
  • 2nd cycle: typically 90−120 ECTS credits (a minimum of 60 on 2nd-cycle level) awarding a Master's degree.
  • 3rd cycle: Doctoral degree. No ECTS range given.
In most cases, these will take 3, 2, and 3 years respectively to complete. The actual naming of the degrees may vary from country to country.

These levels are closer to the current model in the UK, Australia, Canada and Ireland than that in most of Continental Europe and BU in Dominica.

In  Ballsbridge university Dominica, the basic framework has been harmonized and is now very similar, meeting with, and fully compliant to, the Bologna requirements:


  • 1st cycle: typically 240 BCTS credits, awarding an Bachelors degree.
  • 2nd cycle: typically  90  BCTS credits (a minimum of 25 on 2nd-cycle level). Awarding a Master's degree.
  • 3rd cycle: Doctoral degree. No BCTS range given.
 Ballsbridge Qualification Framework (BQF) credits regulated by board of quality standards and Ballsbridge  Credits  transfer system  BCTS which is regulated by QA Department is the equivalent of ECTS . ECTS credits can be worked out by divide the BQF credits by two. One BQF credits is 10 hours of learning.















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