Second, the qualifications and accountability systems are a mess.
Our proposals will restore confidence by ending the perverse incentives created by the interaction of our qualifications and accountability system.
Because all biomedical doctors are trained at university medical schools with standardized examinations, qualifications, and registration system, participants had a high degree of confidence in biomedical doctors and were comfortable switching between them.
The suggested tasks included integrating the two existing committees of early childhood education and childcare under the supervision of the Prime Minister, accommodating the functions of kindergartens and childcare facilities, integrating teacher training and qualification systems, and equalizing public financial support and regulatory systems between the two sectors.
This has been a monumental effort, culminating in the installation of unique and comprehensive training, qualification and certification systems, applied to both people and companies, harmonized on a world-wide basis [5].
The OECD's overview of international patterns of reform shows common themes in many countries, such as helping disadvantaged children; improving vocational skills; raising the quality and training of teachers; and strengthening how schools are assessed and qualifications systems.
Last year he became the first major figure to warn of problems in the government's flagship new diplomas, saying some students could end up with "worthless" qualifications and the whole system risked failure.
Mr Tomlinson was given a free rein to "think the unthinkable" in coming up with a unified framework of qualifications and a better system of assessment that will challenge youngsters, meet the needs of employers and universities and stand thetest of time.
It is not just a matter of dealing with separate political, educational and qualifications systems, although the differences between them can be wide.
Various agendas on integrating teacher training and qualification systems, ECEC services provided by kindergartens and childcare facilities, financial support systems, and supervision and delivery systems could be resolved by the leadership of the MEHRD (see Figure 5).
