The key reasons for having AQF qualifications are to ensure national recognition and consistency as well as common understanding across Australia of what defines each qualification.
AQF qualifications are developed using the AQF specifications, ensuring standards are maintained in describing educational outcomes and in allocating titles to the qualifications.
AQF qualifications:
- facilitate access to employment through relating learning with work and to lifelong learning
- are part of a single national framework of qualifications
- are easily understood and compared within Australia by students, employers and education and training providers
- can be used to access further learning
- may be benchmarked against qualifications from other countries.