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.

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  • Knowledge

    1. The KNOWLEDGE at the level of notion:
    1.1. cultural history;
    1.2. musical form;
    1.3. modern music industry;
    1.4. the latest interpretations and interpreters in vocal music;
    1.5. repertoire of ensembles;
    1.6. accounting;
    1.7 document management;
    1.8. basics of business.
    2. The KNOWLEDGE at the level of understanding:
    2.1. basic repertoire suitable for voice type;
    2.2. features, characteristics, and differences in music styles and genres;
    2.3. concert drama;
    2.4. hygiene of voice apparatus;
    2.5. voice apparatus structure;
    2.6. voice placement methodology;
    2.7. health protection and professional diseases;
    2.8. project management;
    2.9. professional terminology in the official language and Italian language.
    3. The KNOWLEDGE at the level of use:
    3.1. academic singing;
    3.2. literature and the history of world music;
    3.3. stage speech;
    3.4. stage movements;
    3.5. stage culture;
    3.6. artistic expressions and their use;
    3.7. music theory;
    3.8. harmony and polyphony;
    3.9. databases and information acquisition forms;
    3.10. history of vocal music;
    3.11. history of Latvian music;
    3.12. Latvian classic vocal music;
    3.13. solo and ensemble singing specifics;
    3.14. piano playing;
    3.15. artistic image building techniques;
    3.16. basics of music psychology;
    3.17. communication psychology;
    3.18.principles of professional and general ethics;
    3.19. labour protection (fire safety and electrical safety requirements, workplace ergonomics, first aid);
    3.20. basic principles and requirements of environmental protection;
    3.21. official language;
    3.22. one foreign language at the professional communication level;
    3.23. information technologies;
    3.24. standards of the legal employment relations;
    3.25. information systematization;
    3.26. aesthetics;
    3.27. copyright and normative acts in the filed of music.  

  • Skills

    1. To organize, plan, and realize your  own work creatively.
    2. To choose a repertoire suitable for your own voice.
    3. To choose music notation material for a concert program.
    4. To compose and replay a concert program suitable for your own voice.
    5. To comply with stage culture.
    6. To read and understand musical compositions.
    7. To understand instructions given by authors and editors of musical composition.
    8. To evaluate a concert area.
    9. To accomplish a vocal program independently and under the supervision of a bandmaster, director, choreographer, or concertmaster.
    10. To perform projects in music, culture, and education.
    11. To evaluate your own performance and interpretations of other performers.
    12. To master in piano.
    13. To learn music notation precisely.
    14. To develop your own voice apparatus.
    15. To provide the correct and healthy use of voice.
    16. To perform at a solo concert or in a vocal group composition.
    17. To create your own artistic image by using proper movements, make-up, costume, and vocal technique.
    18. To take responsibility for the quality of your own professional activities.
    19. To glean information regarding innovations in the field of vocal art.
    20. To work independently.
    21. To work in a team.
    22. To speak in the official language.
    23. To speak in one foreign language at the professional communication level.
    24. To use professional terminology in the official language and Italian.
    25. To develop your own professional qualification.
    26. To comply with the principles of professional and general ethics.
    27. To comply with labour safety and fire safety normative requirements.
    28.To provide first aid in the event of accidents.
    29. To comply with environmental protection normative requirements.
    30. To use information technologies and office equipment to perform your own professional activities.
    31.To know and comply with copyright and related normative acts.
    32. To comply with legal labour relation standards.

  • Competences/ autonomy

    1. The ability to plan and organize your work creatively.
    2. The ability to choose a suitable repertoire for the target audience by using music history, theories, and knowledge of literature.
    3. The ability to compose a concert program based on musical drama and dynamics in the concert program.
    4. The ability to read, understand, and replay compositions by following instructions provided by the author or editor, using musical expressions.
    5. The ability to perform evaluation of your own musical interpretation and the musical interpretation of other performers.
    6. The ability to evaluate a concert area considering the acoustic properties of a room, and complying with concert membership and repertoire.
    7. The ability to comply with stage culture during a public performance.
    8. The ability to prepare and realize different musical, cultural, and educational projects and concerts independently, as well as under the supervision of a bandmaster, director, or artistic collective manager.
    9. The ability to apply proper movements, make-up, vocal technique, and to choose an appropriate costume to build your artistic image.
    10. The ability to constantly develop artistic voice expressions and technical skills by using different technical methods and learning music notation precisely.
    11. The ability to provide the use of voice in a correct and healthy manner by using vocal technique.
    12. The ability to master in piano and use it by learning vocal repertoire.
    13. The ability to take responsibility for qualitative professional activities.
    14. The ability to choose and use the most suitable technologies and information sources to perform your own professional duties.
    15. The ability to glean information about innovations in the field of vocal art.
    16. The ability work independently and in a team.
    17. The ability to communicate in the official language and one foreign language at a professional communication level.
    18. The ability to use professional music terminology in the official language and Italian.
    19. The ability to self-educate and develop competences.
    20. The ability to comply with the principles of professional and general ethics.
    21. The ability to understand and comply with labour protection un environmental protection normative requirements.
    22. Knowledge of normative acts related to copyright and to comply with copyright.
    23. The ability to comply with legal labour relation standards.

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Qualification acquisition requirements

Previous education
Certificate of general basic 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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4 years

Qualification document

Awarding body

Type of awarding bodies:

- Jāzepa Mediņa Rīgas Mūzikas vidusskola

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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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Arts (021)

Detailed field: (ISCED 2013)

Music and performing arts (0215)

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

Other information

National Education Information System

National Database of Education Opportunities

Active qualification

Last changes: 29.10.2024

Posted: 09.08.2016