National Consultation on Relating Skills to Education in Lebanon - Towards the development of a Lebanese NQF

Monday, June 25, 2018

This event aims to:

Identify what has been done already within the scope of developing an NQF (nationally and internationally), in order to identify the existing local gaps – interna]\]\ionally, it is important to better understand how a National Qualifications Framework will allow coherence with qualifications frameworks of other countries
Relate skills and learning outcomes to formal and non-formal education
Define sector specific skills and competencies – presenting existing experiences and not limited to higher education institutions
Address the needs and skills in demand by the labor market in light of the objective of the National Qualifications Framework to provide transparency and legibility of qualifications delivered in Lebanon and their relevance for the labor market as well as to allow for the recognition of the qualifications based on well-defined competencies whether they have been acquired with the formal or non-formal education.
Identify the socio-economic and educational development opportunities within an integrated tertiary education system with distinctive, differentiated and complementary features to every constituent, i.e. vocational, technological and Higher education programme.

Partners:

Ministry of Education and Higher Education

Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF)

National Erasmus+ Lebanon

Higher Education Reform Experts

UNESCO

Coordinators :

Arts, Sciences & Technology University in Lebanon

Lebanese Canadian University

DAY 1 June 25, 2018
8:30am–9:00am	Registration
9:00am–9:30am	Opening Remarks Ahmad Jammal, Director General of Higher Education, Ministry of Education and Higher Education Herve Sabourin, Regional Director, Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF) Anasse Bouhlal, Higher Education Officcer, UNESCO Aref Alsoufi, National Coordinator, National ERASMUS+ Office
9:30am–10:00am	Keynote Speech : National Qualifications Framework in the Context of SDG4 Anasse Bouhlal, Higher Education Officcer, UNESCO
10:00am-11:00am	Session I: Overview of National Context, **Chair: Aref Alsoufi, National Coordinator, National ERASMUS+ Office** National Vision for Higher Education, Ahmad Jammal, Director General of Higher Education, Ministry of Education and Higher Education, Lebanon National Survey Presentation, Diane Nauffal and Hana A. El-Ghali
*11:00am–11:15am*	*Break*
11:15am–12:15pm	Session II: The Norwegian Perspective and Experience on NQF Chair: Hana El Ghali Stig Arne Skjerven, Director of Foreign Education, NOKUT Øystein Lund, QA Director of NOKUT
12:15pm–1:45pm	Session III: Lebanese Needs Chair: Jinane Chaaban, Ministry of Education and Higher Education (TBC) Perspective and Experience of the National Academy of Administration, Jamal Zaim, Director General, Ecole Nationale d’Administration Perspective and Experience of the Civil Service Board, Nisreen Mashmoushi, Comptroller, Civil Service Board TVET: Skills modeling and skills forecast, Salam Younes, Acting Director General of Technical and Vocational Education, Ministry of Education and Higher Education
*1:45pm–2:45pm*	*Lunch*
2:45pm–4:15pm	Session IV: Lebanese Experiences Chair: Fouad Rahme, President, Lebanese Business Association (TBC) Overview of ETF Projects on NQF, Pierre Gedeon, HERE Team Applying Tuning Methodology for the Development of the Architecture Degree Program (T-MEDA), Ursula Rizk, Professor, Balamand Univeristy Apprentissage à Distance et Innovation Pédagogique –ADIP, Natalie Bitar, Agence universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF)
4:15pm–4:30pm	Closing Remarks

DAY 2 June 25, 2018
9:00am–10:30am	Session V: Implementation of a NQF, the French Case Chair: Hervé Sabourin, Regional Director, Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie – Middle East Region (AUF) Bridgette Bouquet, Vice President, Commission Nationale de la Certification Professionnelle (CNCP)
*10:30am–11:00am*	*Break*
11:00am–12:30pm	Session VI: Integrated Tertiary Education (Erasmus+ Higher Education Reform Experts) Chair: Amer Helwani, Professor, Lebanese University and Erasmus+ Office Vocational Education, Oussama Ghneim, Expert in Educational Studies Technological Education, Mohamad Oueidat and Chawki Diab, Professors, Lebanese University Higher Education, Chafic Mokbel, Professor, University of Balamand and HERE Team
*12:30pm–1:30pm*	Next Steps Group work on: Understanding of NQF Localizing the NQF for the Lebanese Context Policy and Action Recommendations
1:30pm–2:00pm	Closing Remarks