Qualifications Framework level

EQF level

European Qualifications Framework (EQF) has 8 levels (1 – the lowest, 8 – the highest).

Levels reflect the complexity level of acquired knowledge, skills and competences (learning outcomes).


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LQF level

Latvian Qualifications Framework (LQF) has 8 levels (1 – the lowest, 8 – the highest).

Levels reflect the complexity level of acquired knowledge, skills and competences (learning outcomes).

LQF covers stages of education starting from the basic education (level 1 – special basic education) to the highest education (level 8 – doctoral studies).


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Level of professional qualification
Till 1 august 2022 in Latvia had a system of five professional qualifications levels (PQL, 1 – the lowest, 5 – the highest).

PQL system covers only professional qualifications (basic education, secondary and higher education stages).

PQL reflects readiness of a person to perform work of certain stage of complexity and responsibility.
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Learning outcomes

Learning outcomes are knowledge, skills and competences acquired during a certain period of learning.

In Latvia, learning outcomes are stipulated by state education standards and occupational standards (for the professional qualifications).

Learning outcomes of higher education are defined by higher education institutions.


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– Able to perform intellectual operations at the level of knowledge, understanding, use and simple analysis.
– Uses knowledge and theoretical understanding in wide-ranging complex activities.
– Able to obtain and evaluate information independently.
– Uses wide-ranging knowledge and skills for the solution of well-formulated, but unknown and unforeseeable problems.
– Has detailed, theoretical knowledge and understanding corresponding to the professional qualification.
– Has wide-ranging skills and proficiency essential for the profession corresponding to the professional qualification.
– Able to perform the work of executor independently, including the planning and supervision of the work to be performed.
– Knows and is able to apply appropriate technologies.
– Able to apply information acquisition and processing technologies in professional activity.
– Latvian language proficiency developed and foreign language(-s) proficiency improved.
– Knows and understands links between historical developments of their county, Latvia, Europe and world.
– Able to apply mathematical knowledge and skills in professional work.
– Able to apply knowledge about the facts and laws of natural sciences in professional activity.
– Able to evaluate the processes occurring in nature and society and comprehend them in their system and development.
– Understands the principle of coherence of ecological space and observes the environmental protection requirements in professional activity.
– Understands the basic principles of market economy.
– Able to find their place in the economic structures of society and able to operate therein.
– Understands the economic relationship between employer and employee and knows the relevant legislation.
– Has a conception of the political structure of the European Union, as well as of the principles of single economic area and the mobility of the labour force.
– Evaluates their abilities adequately.
– Plans activity in compliance with circumstances, possibilities and their abilities.
– Plans time in accordance with task.
– Able to make justified choice and make a decision independently in familiar and less familiar circumstances.
– Able to answer for the quantitative and qualitative result of their professional activities, assumes partial responsibility for the work performed by others.
– Is determined, systematic and rational when working.
– Is careful and accurate.
– Able to assume initiative.

Road Construction Technician

  • Knowledge

    1. The knowledge necessary for performance of the basic tasks of the professional activity at the level of notion:
    1.1. basics of business;
    1.2. geology;
    1.3. conformity assessment order of construction products;
    1.4. basic principles of sustainable construction;
    1.5. environment accessibility;
    1.6. economics.
    2. The knowledge necessary for performance of the basic tasks of the professional activity at the level of understanding:
    2.1. usage of building machines, main technical parameters;
    2.2. construction work cost structure;
    2.3. construction drawing and technical designations;
    2.4. dangerous mechanisms;
    2.5. construction laws and regulations;
    2.6. design software;
    2.7. waste collection technology;
    2.8. basics of communication;
    2.9. professional terms in the official language and in one foreign language.
    3. The knowledge necessary for performance of the basic tasks of the professional activity at the level of use:
    3.1. duties, rights and responsibilities of the construction participants;
    3.2. road traffic rules;
    3.3. laws and regulations regarding work place arrangement on roads;
    3.4. road construction materials;
    3.5. road construction technologies;
    3.6. geodesic technical accuracy class instruments, their usage;
    3.7. construction drawing;
    3.8. specifications and standards of the road building design;
    3.9. construction work organization plans;
    3.10. road and bridge maintenance work specifications;
    3.11. browsers;
    3.12. office applications software;
    3.13. labour protection instructions, means and its use;
    3.14. fire safety rules, fire extinguishing means and their use;
    3.15. first aid;
    3.16. standards of legal employment relations;
    3.17. requirements and technologies of the environmental protection laws and regulations;
    3.18. official language;
    3.19. one foreign language at the level of professional communication;
    3.20. basic principles of professional and general ethics.

  • Skills

    1. To have a good knowledge of the project documentation and other binding standards.
    2. To use road construction technologies.
    3. To use rating principles of labour force, necessary mechanisms, materials and other resources.
    4. To use office application software.
    5. To have good knowledge of the internal structure and document circulation procedures at the construction company.
    6. To have knowledge of the work organization project of the construction object.
    7. Use the construction object specifications.
    8. To communicate with the involved and interested parties and institutions in the implementation of the project.
    9. To understand traffic organization, road building design preparation, coordination and implementation sequence at the construction object.
    10. To understand general construction management organisation, know the duties, rights and responsibilities of the construction participants during the construction process.
    11. To know the characteristics and qualities of the materials to be used in the road construction.
    12. To understand the geological characteristics of the quarries attached to a particular road construction obbject.
    13. To use safe and rational quarry output technologies.
    14. To maintain and protect a temporary geodetic support network of the road construction object, as well as to renew it in case of damage.
    15. To observe the of work performance schedule and amount.
    16. To assess the resources necessary for the road construction, current employee’s qualification and performance of the practically available technological resources, as well as rationally organize it in the work process.
    17. To nderstand the impact of external conditions on the work productivity and quality.
    18. To deal with technical class geodetic instruments of a technical class, perform their inspection and adjustment;
    19. To control qualities of materials and their conformity with the building project before and during the deposition process.
    20. To use the express methods of work quality control.
    21. To act accordingly in case of detected technological violations, work quality or any other discrepancies.
    22. To know the requirements of the road construction specification, quality index value and allowed indents.
    23. To fill in the necessary documents.
    24. To know regulatory  road maintenance requirements.
    25. To use the materials utilized in theroad construction according to the weather conditions and road construction condition.
    26. To organize road maintenance, make independent decisions and act according to the changing weather conditions.
    27. To observe and analyse the condition peculiarities of the managed roads and their significance independently in choosing technical means and materials for road maintenance.
    28. To act operatively in non-standard situations.
    29. To se the traffic organisation project of the road construction site.
    30. To assess if the organised traffic movement arrangement corresponds to the project and ensure prevention of discrepancies.
    31. To perform inspection of the daily traffic movement organization condition and if it corresponds to the movement organization scheme.
    32. To provide the first aid, use means and methods of the first aid.
    33. To assess danger of accidents and possible consequences.
    34. To know and assess environmental protection factors.
    35. To observe the requirements of the environmental protection laws and regulations.
    36. To apply quality testing methods of materials and structural elements.
    37. To use sampling procedures of materials and structural elements for quality testing.
    38. To know the penalties and  responsibility of the employees in case of quality discrepancy.
    39. To know the final assessment principles of the completed road construction site.
    40. To assess the consequences of the allowed discrepancies and ensure their prevention.
    41. To accept the corrected construction works.
    42. To prepare the necessary documentation for commissioning of the road construction object.
    43. To identify hazardous waste, organize its collection.
    44. To understand the principles of environmental protection and manage them.
    45. To know labour protection organization and complex of events  at the site.
    46. To observe requirements of employment regulations and ensure their implementation.
    47. To identify and analyse labour protection and the problems of ensuring safe working methods at a particular road construction site.
    48. To organize preventive measures for risk elimination.
    49. To observe and organize fulfilment of the fire safety requirements  
    50. To se professional development opportunities in the field and acquire latest industry tendencies (materials, technologies and their use).
    51. To analyse, select and use the obtained knowledge in every day work.
    52. To communicate with other construction participants and justify own views.
    53. To have a good command of the official language.
    54. To have a good command of one foreign language at the level of communication.
    55. To organize work independently, analyse the work process and be responsible for the result of the own work
    56. To observe standards of the legal employment relations.
    57. To observe the basic principles of professional and general ethics.
    58. To use professional terminology in the official language and in one foreign language.

  • Competences/ autonomy

    1. Ability to understand the construction design, technical schemes and standards.
    2. Ability to organize and perform road construction works according to the building design, construction work organization project, other technical documentation, principles of sustainable building and the set requirements of quality, laws and regulations.
    3. Ability to be aware of the requirements of the building design and general specifications of materials, as well as available materials for a particular road construction project.
    4. Ability to communicate with the persons involved in building design, as well with state and local authorities and other institutions interested in theimplementation of the project.
    5. Ability to ensure the work process in accordance with the project implementation schedule by using the necessary labour force, materials and technical resources.
    6. Ability to ensure fulfilment of the quality requirements.
    7. Ability to apply the requirements of specifications to the used materials and structural elements, as well as choose appropriate testing methods.
    8. Ability to consider the assessment methods of the completed road construction site and its use, ensure objective evaluation of the work performance.
    9. Ability to obtain the necessary information and use it in practice.
    10. Ability to apply sampling and testing procedures.
    11. Ability to prepare the necessary documentation for commissioning of the road construction site.
    12. Ability to assess the consequences of uncomformities, ensure their prevention and accept the corrected construction works.
    13. Ability to know critical and non-standard situations, as well as make the necessary decisions.
    14. Ability to assess work safety risks and organise preventive measures to address them.
    15. Ability to provide the first aid.
    16. Ability to observe standards of the legal employment relations.
    17. Ability to identify threat in the field of environmental protection and to organize timely measures to prevent them.
    18. Ability to use safe working practices and observe requirements of the labour protection, fire safety and environmental laws and regulations.
    19. Ability to perform the work individually and to be responsible for the own work result.
    20. Ability to use professional terminology in the official language and in one foreign language.
    21. Ability to communicate in the official language and in one foreign language.

Qualification acquisition requirements

Previous education
Certificate of general secondary education
Ways to acquire 
Qualifications can be acquired in the framework of education programs or in the evaluation and recognition of non-formal knowledge, skills and competences acquired (in vocational education LKI Levels 2-4).
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Formal (through education programmes)
ECTS credit points 
Snice 11.10.2022 60 credit points correspond to the study results acquired in full-time studies in one academic year in accordance with the European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System (ECTS).Since 11.10.2022

Till 11.10.2022 1 Latvian credit point corresponds to 1,5 ECTS credit point.
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Duration of study 
Duration of qualification in full-time studies
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1,5 years

Qualification document

Awarding body

Vocational basic and secondary education institution

- Daugavpils Technical School of Construction

Type of awarding bodies:

- Latgales Industriālais tehnikums

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Qualifications Framework level

EQF level

European Qualifications Framework (EQF) has 8 levels (1 – the lowest, 8 – the highest).

Levels reflect the complexity level of acquired knowledge, skills and competences (learning outcomes).


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LQF level

Latvian Qualifications Framework (LQF) has 8 levels (1 – the lowest, 8 – the highest).

Levels reflect the complexity level of acquired knowledge, skills and competences (learning outcomes).

LQF covers stages of education starting from the basic education (level 1 – special basic education) to the highest education (level 8 – doctoral studies).


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Level of professional qualification

Till 1 august 2022 in Latvia had a system of five professional qualifications levels (PQL, 1 – the lowest, 5 – the highest).

PQL system covers only professional qualifications (basic education, secondary and higher education stages).

PQL reflects readiness of a person to perform work of certain stage of complexity and responsibility.


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LQF PQ level:

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Theoretical and practical training corresponding to the LQF levels, characterized by the learning outcomes that can be achieved at the relevant level, which gives the opportunity to perform work corresponding to a certain level of complexity and responsibility.
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Qualification field, stage and type

Thematic field (ISCED 2013)
International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) developed by UNESCO.
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Architecture and construction (073)

Detailed field: (ISCED 2013)

Building and civil engineering (0732)

Education
Stages of Latvian education system included in the LQF:
- basic education
- secondary education
- higher education
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Secondary education

Qualification type
ITypes of Latvian education:
-General education
-Professional education
-Academic education
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Vocational

Full or partial

Full qualification

Sector Qualifications Structure: Construction sector

Kvalifikācijas tips:
Specialization of base qualification:
Connected to:

Link to the descriptions of the Sector Qualifications Structure levels

Other information

National Education Information System

National Database of Education Opportunities

Active qualification

Last changes: 25.10.2024

Posted: 07.05.2016