ABSTRACT
An employer wishing to determine the level of ability and knowledge of a prospective employee from another country, or an employee wishing to gauge the level of his or her qualification in a country to which he or she has moved, should be able to use the European Qualifications Framework (EQF) for such purposes. The extent to which the framework can be relied on as a valid instrument for expressing the standing of qualifications remains, however, open, particularly as it is based not on direct regulation but on ‘soft law’ in the form of the Open Method of Co-ordination (OMC), involving joint identification and definition of objectives to be achieved, establishing measuring instruments and benchmarking (EC 2009).
