VALIDATION OF NON-FORMAL AND INFORMAL LEARNING IN THE EU NEIGHBOURING

To promote the concept of VNFIL in education, in August 2023 the Kyrgyz Government adopted the Regulation on the establishment of the ‘Centre for Independent Certification and Validation’ under the Ministry of Education and Science, which should carry out activities aimed at improving the quality of VNFIL CROSS-COUNTRY ANALYSIS REPORT | 16 vocational education in the Kyrgyz Republic through indepe. [...] The latter is based on the understanding of the National Qualifications System as a set of legal and institutional tools and mechanisms for regulating and coordinating the demand for qualifications from the labour market and supply of qualifications from the education system, including informal ones. [...] The Law on NQF from 2013 and the Law on Adult Education from 2008 mentioned the possibility of validation of prior knowledge and skills, but a significant and recent development in the area is the preparation of new draft legislation, namely the draft new laws on NQF and Adult Education that will allow the operationalisation of the validation service. [...] For the case of Kazakhstan, in turn, a decentralisation trend could be observed following the introduction of the NQF: some regulatory documents on standards were developed, and the development of the Register of Certification Centres (which is located on the website of Atameken, the National Chamber of Entrepreneurs) has started. [...] The Ministry of Education, Culture and Research usually assigns the role of a validation centre in the field of VET to the Centres of Excellence and VET institutions with 17 For validation in general education, meanwhile, the setting is different.