National qualifications framework – Palestine

Palestine plans an eight-level qualifications framework (NQF) based on learning outcomes and encompassing qualifications from all education and training sectors. Palestine’s current draft NQF relaunches the framework, following a first proposal for an NQF made in 2013 but whose development remained in abeyance for several years. 

An official NQF working group developed a draft NQF during 2023, for eventual submission to the country’s national government, the Palestinian Authority, for their review and potential approval. 

No law has been adopted yet and no roles or functions allocated to actors and stakeholders, therefore Palestine is in the design stage.