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Qualifications Framework (CQF) is an IQ qualifications framework
for industry and organisations, who want to keep some or
complete ownership of their own qualifications. The CQF uses the
same IQ systems and operates in exactly the same way as the QCF,
thus ensuring appropriate and required external quality
assurance from IQ.  The framework goes from entry level to level
8 signifying the different educational levels of difficulty.
Each qualification unit has a credit value based on its notional
hours of learning (ie 1 credit equals 10 notional hours of
learning). The qualifications come in 3 sizes:    • Award (
between 1 to 12 credits)   • Certificate (between 13 to 36
credits) or   • Diploma (37 credits and above).  IQ names its
CQF qualifications using the same educational level and the QCF
size requirements, as follows; an IQ Level 3 In