ABSTRACT
The 'enhancing lifelong learning' accompany more modest aims such being mainly seen as communication or transparency tools whose main task is to clarify the relations between the different parts of the national system. The intrinsic and exchange value are inter-related, but the link has weakened as labour markets have expanded, internationalised and mutated in their skill and knowledge foundations. Raffe (2009) has suggested that qualifications systems have both intrinsic and institutional logics. The institutional logic is a product of the history, ownership and management of qualifications and results in variations in these constructs and the associated relationships between qualifications. The purpose of linking qualifications across sectors, and especially the vocational education and training (VET) and higher education sectors emerged. The Malaysian Qualifications Framework (MQF) could be regarded as a second phase framework located in a middle-level economy. The economic and political history of the country has contributed to a mix of a basically free market and relatively unregulated economy.
