The Act on the Verification and Recognition of Results of Further Education (2006) is of fundamental importance to the legislative incorporation of the NSK (Národní soustava kvalifikací - Czech therm) ; in a broader context of the NSK, the Lifelong Learning Strategy of the Czech Republic, approved by the government, plays the most important role. The NSK is a publicly accessible register (repertoire) of all complete and partial qualifications and their qualification and assessment standards. The framework for these qualifications consists of eight levels similar to the EQF levels.
Two important projects aimed at developing and partially implementing the NSK were implemented in the Czech Republic from 2005 to 2008. These projects were the NSK and UNIV system projects of the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports, and were funded with support from the ESF. Both of these projects significantly enforce the role of the social partners (especially employers) and their influence on the qualifications structure as well as the contents and implementation of educational programmes leading to attaining qualifications and promote the integration of IVET and CVET.
In 2009, the new project of the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports called The Development and Implementation of the NSK (NSK2) started, which will complete and support the NSK development.
At the level of tertiary education the decision to develop a qualifications framework for tertiary education was taken by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports in 2005. The Ministry made the development of this framework a priority objective in its strategic plan for 2006-2010. The national generic descriptors were suggested as to follow from the Dublin descriptors while taking into account of the EQF descriptors and the needs of the Czech education system. Thus the tertiary part of the Czech NSK could reach the goal which the ministers responsible for higher education (including all EU ministers) agreed when gathered in London in 2007 – the NQFs for higher education should be compatible with the overarching Framework for Qualifications of the European Higher Education Area (QF-EHEA) as well as with the EQF.
Qualifications framework for tertiary education will be designed under Q-RAM project funded from the ESF as well.