At the regional level, QFs can improve comparability of qualifications, promote mutual recognition of qualifications, encourage credit transfer, develop national standards, and facilitate agreement on entrance requirements for higher education (Tuck 2007).
The mutual agreement over qualifications had already been strained - with divided views over last summer's disputed GCSE English results.
ESR underlines that even if the recognition of professionals is legally regulated by the Directive on the Mutual Recognition of Qualifications it is important to establish standardised European training curricula and structures for all radiologists [19, 28].
Trying to establish rules on the mutual recognition of professional qualifications in Europe has proved a major headache.
These are: abolition of wage indexation systems, agreement on mutual recognition of education qualifications, creation of a common base for assessing corporate tax, adjustment of the pension systems, establishment of a national crisis management regime for banks and new legal measures to force countries to commit to tough fiscal policies through a "debt alert mechanism".
For example, twinning programs, educational partnerships, and affiliations between institutions on both sides could help provide the basis for future discussions on equivalence of qualifications and mutual recognition.
Directives cover a wide range of human activity, as can be gleaned from their titles: Food Supplements, Software Patents, Data Protection, Direct Marketing, Molecular Farming, Traditional Herbal Medicinal Products and Mutual Recognition of Professional Qualifications, to name but a few.
The enlargement of the European Union since 2004, as well as the implementation of the internal market for services and the mutual recognition of professional qualifications between Member States, favoured the increase.
I also consider it important to have established contact points but also to have demonstrated that these will not create any additional red tape, given that contact points have already been set up under the Services Directive and in connection with the mutual recognition of vocational qualifications.
He describes himself not as anti-elitist but as 'anticredentialist.' "A fine credo, actually, for the evening: a sort of velvet-roped, live-action Wikipedia royale in which list members assessed fellow-partygoers, absent any particular qualification besides their mutual influentialness.
