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Difference between a higher education programme and a qualification?
A qualification is a legally credited and certification of an achievement through the learning processes, and once it is completed, it is awarded by a legally recognised higher education institution.
A programme is a formally structured set of collective learning processes, which collectively leads to a qualification.
For instance, a Bachelor of Science (B Sc) degree is a qualification. A B Sc (Information Technology) is a programme.
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