 Can a student in Malta take a course in Trinidad and Tobago? What about in the Seychelles? Or how about the Solomon Islands? For the Transnational Qualifications Framework we needed to get full support from ministers of education and then from the senior officials who are responsible for national qualification authorities. Of the 32 small states, quite a number of the countries already had developed qualification frameworks and qualification authorities and some of them had not. So it's been a balancing exercise to pass information from one country to another and to do this across the whole group. So we have a large base of information from many of the countries, more than 20 of the countries of examination systems, of qualification authority systems, of frameworks. So we knew before we went into the process where each country was. The countries that already have qualification authorities probably wouldn't see much of a need for a qualification framework. Those that had nothing yet would find this a good help. So we needed to go through quite a process at that level to make sure that we could create a framework of help both to the countries that had frameworks already and those that didn't have. The idea was actually not to create competition between the different universities and as well creating another institution that would compete with the other small states. The idea was to actually use what is already there and to build on it. So thereby working with institutions and other countries as well that can help and support the development of. If it's to be given the accreditation of the transnational qualification framework it must first be offered by a national institution, recognised by government. It must be recognised by the national qualification authority and by a regional qualification authority if that is in operation. The TQF has been very important to contain what was going to be achieved. It's very easy to launch into a project and to try to do far too much. And with the qualification framework it's quite easy to try to conceptualise a global qualification authority which on paper might be very easy to do but try to do that diplomatically and it would be another story. So it was more practical for us to focus on developing a qualification framework and all the rules and regulations about how to interchange courses between countries and that's where we are now.