This paper sets out national policy for the development of a system of national skills standards and qualifications for The Gambia, collectively known as the Gambia Skills Qualifications Framework (GSQF). The GSQF is not a ‘full’ framework including both academic and vocational learning. It is a partial qualification framework, concerned with technical, vocational and literacy skills. The GSQF is designed so that it may be extended into a full qualification framework with a minimum of adaptations. It is, however, an integrated framework in the sense that it includes formal and informal learning of skills, post-school college or centre based and on-the-job learning, full-time and part-time learning. The GSQF includes provision for illiterate learners, apprentices (both formal and informal) with weak or even no formal education, adults as well as new entrants to the workforce.