The Malta Further and Higher Education Authority (MFHEA) is Malta’s national regulator for further and higher education, established in 2021 under the revised Education Act. Guided by its vision of “Quality Education for Confident Futures,” the Authority is responsible for licensing and accrediting educational institutions and programmes, while ensuring consistent quality standards across the sector. Through its work, MFHEA supports learners and providers within the Malta Qualifications Framework (MQF), aligning local qualifications with international benchmarks.
The Malta Qualifications Framework (MQF) assists in making the Maltese qualifications system easier to understand and review, and more transparent at a national and international level. The Malta Qualifications Framework is also a referencing tool that helps to describe and compare both national and foreign qualifications to promote quality, transparency and mobility of qualifications in all types of education. It is mainly referenced to the European Qualifications Framework (EQF) as well as to other non-European qualifications frameworks.