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The Academic Recognition Hub provides access to various types of resources, including legal documents, guidelines and other publications, such as reports and articles. It does so by guiding you to relevant websites that offer information on the topic of academic recognition, as well as other relevant fields like quality assurance or accreditation. Enter your search terms in the field for a quick search and your results will appear below. For an advanced search, simply select a type of resource and relevant topics.

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  • Publications 2023 Automatic recognition

    Catalysts for automatic recognition: ENIC-NARIC centres providing national guidance through improved AR regimes

    Nuffic

    Achieving mutual automatic recognition of access and higher education qualifications from European Union and European Higher Education Area (EHEA) countries, is a priority in the creation of the European Education Area by 2025, as well as a long-term objective for the European Higher Education Area (EHEA). This report presents the findings of a series of measures to improve fair and automatic recognition in a set of 11 ENIC-NARIC centres. In doing so it aims to inform ENIC-NARICs and national and European policy makers about good practice supporting automatic recognition. The report also aims to contribute to a wider discussion on how to achieve automatic recognition.

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  • Publications 2023 Global

    The Global Recognition Convention going local? Analysis of the GC & LRC to support the GC’s implementation in the ENIC-NARIC Networks

    Nuffic

    In 2019 the new Global Convention on the Recognition
    of Qualifications concerning higher education, or Global
    Recognition Convention in short (GC), was adopted. The
    treaty offers a global legal framework for fair cross-border
    recognition of qualifications. This paper presents the main outcomes of a systematic analysis how this new global treaty relates to the Lisbon Recognition Convention (LRC) adopted in 1997. To this end, both legal texts have been compared, looking at areas that may require
    clarification.

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  • Guidelines 2023 Automatic recognition, Bologna Process tools, Convention, ENIC-NARIC Networks, Good practice, Refugees

    European Area of Recognition Manual

    Nuffic

    This is the second edition of the European Area of Recognition
    (EAR) manual, which was produced as part of the Erasmus+
    project Implementation of Automatic Recognition in the
    Networks (I-AR). It contains standards and guidelines
    on all aspects of the recognition of foreign qualifications
    and aims to provide the credential evaluators from the
    European National Information Centres network and National
    Academic Recognition and Information Centres network
    (ENIC-NARIC Networks) with a practical tool to assist them in their
    daily recognition work.

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  • Publications 2023 Global

    Nic Mitchell: Global HE recognition convention parties get to work

    University World News

    A major step towards achieving greater equity in student mobility was taken earlier this month when the first 22 countries ratifying UNESCO’s Global Convention on the Recognition of Qualifications concerning Higher Education met with other international higher education stakeholders for a conference of the parties (COP1) to take forward the initiative aimed at worldwide mutual recognition of qualifications. This article outlines what the COP1 achieved and which further steps lie ahead.

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