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facilitator-Person co-ordinating/managing learning/participation, to make the achievement of a specific goal easier, or more likely to happen.

flexible learning-Provision of study in such a way that students can arrange to study in their own time, or to select topics that are of special relevance to them.

formative assessment-Assessment aimed at determining a person's strengths and weaknesses with the objective of improving them. Generally expressed in words rather than grades, and generally not used in the final assessment.
Source: Scottish Qualifications Authority

Framework of Qualifications (European)-An overarching framework that makes transparent the relationship between “Bologna” national higher educational frameworks of qualifications and the qualifications they contain. It is an articulation mechanism between national frameworks. (Report, Dec.2004 Ch.2.1, p.14).
Source: Bergen Ministers' Meeting Glossary http://www.bologna-bergen2005.no/

Framework of Qualifications (national)-The single description, at national level or level of an education system, which is internationally understood and through which all qualifications and other learning achievements in higher education may be described and related to each other in a coherent way and which defines the relationship between higher education qualifications (Report, Dec.2004 Ch.2.1, p.14). Qualifications frameworks bridge the world of higher education and the world of work. Such frameworks employ clear reference points (learning outcomes, subject reference points/benchmark statements, levels/cycle descriptors, workload, qualifications descriptors) and provide a context for qualifications with regard to the nature, function and skills that they certify.

further education-Tertiary (college-based), post-school learning opportunities.