DOCUMENTS – Chain5

The newsletters, memos and other documents about CHAIN5, level 5 qualifications, studies, conferences, other activities and so on can be downloaded here. For earlier newsletters you can scroll down…

Level 5 in a lot of countries (June 2024)
Based on a number of sources, we have prepared a document with two overviews when it comes to level 5 in a large number of countries:
– type of Short Cycle HE – and (plans) also for Higher VET
– types of qualifications at level 5 and level 6
overview sche – l5 – l6 – june 2024
It indicates that there is a lot of diversity when it comes to the type of qualifications at level 5 of the EQF. It can also be seen that several countries do not have a SCHE. So there is still a lot to do when it comes to that.

Community Newsletters
CHAIN5 community newsletter – june 22

Presentations Pre-Conference 10 March 2022
Here a number of presentations that have been used during the Pre-Conference of CHAIN5:
Session 3 (Activities CHAIN5 to be foreseen)
session 3 chain5 ideas
Session 4 (Co-creation – Flanders)
Sessie Chain 5 10-3-22 co-creation
Session 5 (Information about the Annual Conference 2022 – Oslo)
Chain5 Venue sep 2022 Venue and host for CHAIN5 Annual Conference Sep 21-23 2022

Brochure about ‘Co-creation’ in Flanders
This brochure will be discussed on the 10th of March, during one of the sessions.
Here the link:
https://foqus.h5mag.com/systemwide_analyses_cocreation

Report ‘Internationalisation at level 5 (SCHE)’
The report about ‘internationalisation in level 5 programmes in the Nether-lands and Flanders (Associate degree / Graduaat)’ has been published, based on a survey that has been held in 2021. It can be interesting to learn more, as a member of CHAIN5, about what is relevant in this context. In September there will be a session about this topic, during the Annual Conference in Oslo.
Here this report: IoHE-Ad-_-Level-5

Feedback on OECD report: ‘Professional Tertiary Education’
As CHAIN5, we have prepared a document in response to a OECD report on the position of Professional Tertiary Education, and the webinar that was recently held about it. We are mainly concerned with the definitions and looking at what is seen as Higher VET. The document can actually be read separately from the research (the OECD will publish its reports itself) and can be seen as a contribution to the discussion about making the tertiary sector more transparent. In our opinion, this is absolutely needed – now…
memo oecd feedback – chain5 – 19-10-21

The position of the inquisitive attitude in the Learning Outcomes of Associate degree programs (EQF5 in the Netherlands)
NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences and Rotterdam Academy, one of the institutes of Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences, have taken up the challenge of exploring this subject matter at a generic level.
In cooperation with several universities of applied sciences and various organisations, they compiled this guide for these Ad programs:
InquisitiveAttitude-level5-2021

Summary Annual Conference 2021
We have written a short document about the annual conference in March this year, with a number of interesting outcomes.
CHAIN5_SummeryAnnualConference_Zagreb 20210427

Newsletter about Erasmus+ and CHAIN5
We published a newsletter about the options for having CHAIN5 involved in applications under Erasmus+, as a specific partner. Scroll down for that newsletter…

Presentations and documents Annual Conference 2021
Here you will find the presentations and documents, used for the six sessions of the conference that has been held online.

Session 1
session 1 zagreb daale
session 1 Žiljak Chain5 Conf Zgb
session 1 presentation Chain5_MB
Session 2
Session 2 (Intro) Nina Spithost
Session 2 (Internationalisation) Key note Robert Coelen
Breakoutgroup session 2 Internationalisation & Level 5
(report)
Session 3
session 3 CHAIN5 ppp daale
session 3 K.Trawinska_PL_20210311
session 3 Update reform Higher Vocational Education in Norway and political work
Session 4
session 4 Oran Doherty Work Based Learning Thesis
session 4 2021-RAc-leaflet-Inquisitive-Attitude
session 4 Natascha Inquisitive attitude RAc
session 4 Oran Doherty presentation
session 4 Nevena Master craftsman
session 4 Breakout Session WBL possible discussion topics
Session 5
session 5 Erik Swars Presentation
session 5 Croatia_Credit System
session 5 Presentation – research 5 countries – norway
Session 6
session 6 venue and host for CHAIN5 March 2022
session 6 venue 2022

Newsletter 25 February 2021
See below (scroll down) for the latest newsletter, – the second one about ‘level 5 in the picture’- with background information about level 5 in reports, documents, surveys and so on.

European documents (VET, level 5 and Higher VET)
The following documents has been published by the European Commission, also relevant for CHAIN5.
VET 2020 end report
This is a report by the ET20 Working Group on VET, also having attention for Higher VET. That’s why we will use it for our new thematic teams (see the newsletters about that).
Osnabrueck_Declaration_EU2020
This document is signed by all EU-ministers for VET, on 30 November, with the plans for 2021-2025
VET4EU2_Paper_Osnabruck_Declaration_Nov_2020
VET4EU2 is the international network for European associations involved in VET. Chain5 is associate member of VET4EU2, as partner of the European Commission.
eu recommendation VET – 24-11-20
This document is about the VET sector in a broad perspective, also including Higher VET.
eea-communication-sept2020_en
Europe is focusing on having a European Education (and Training) Area in 2025, for all education sectors. That can be also the case for level 5 and qualifications at higher levels, not being higher education.
Pact for Skills and Charter 2021-2027
The Pact for Skills is the basis for a number of actions, foreseen for 2021-2027.

Structure CHAIN5
Chain5 – structure 2020

Reports conference Malta
scheme levels 5-8 EQF – international approach – input malta conference
(info about the memos, used as input for the conference)
malta conference dec 2019 – report
(end report, conclusions and recommendations)

Projects
CHAIN5 is involved, in most cases through Leido, in projects. Here you will find some information about one of them.

TANDEM
See: www.tandemflexiblepathways.eu