Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to question the appropriateness of a proposal for a new European Qualifications Framework. The framework has three perspectives: historical; analytical; and national. Design/methodology/approach: The approaches are diverse since the first insists on the institutional and decision-making processes at European…

The planners at the Symposium on Catholic Education in San Francisco in 1976 structured the meeting and events leading up to the meeting to produce policy recommendations which would guide the progress of Catholic education during the next five to ten years. Comments on the process by which these recommendations came about. (Author/RK)