{"id":19714,"date":"2023-10-19T15:43:28","date_gmt":"2023-10-19T13:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/azvo.borealis.biz\/?page_id=19714"},"modified":"2024-01-26T13:40:01","modified_gmt":"2024-01-26T12:40:01","slug":"assessment-of-foreign-higher-education-qualifications","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.azvo.hr\/en\/foreign-education-qualifications\/assessment-of-foreign-higher-education-qualifications\/","title":{"rendered":"Assessment of Foreign Higher Education Qualifications"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-lead-text mb-40 lg:mb-60 lg:-mt-[8rem]\">\n  <p class=\"font-serif text-xl sm:text-2xl leading-normal\">Assessment of foreign higher education qualifications for the purpose of accessing the labour market in the Republic of Croatia is under the authority of the National ENIC\/NARIC Office of the Agency for Science and Higher Education. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"mb-10 text-base leading-normal\">\n  \nWhen the new Act on the Recognition and Assessment of Foreign Educational Qualifications (Official Gazette<a href=\"https:\/\/narodne-novine.nn.hr\/clanci\/sluzbeni\/2022_06_69_1023.html\">&nbsp;69\/2022<\/a>) came into force on the 25<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;June 2022, it signalled a halt of the previous administrative procedure of the recognition of foreign higher education qualifications, and the introduction of the procedure of assessment of higher education qualifications that serves as a basis for the Agency for Science and Higher Education to issue an informational document \u2013 opinion on a foreign higher education qualification.\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"mb-10 text-base leading-normal\">\n  \nIn the procedure of assessing a foreign higher education qualification, only the level of achieved knowledge, skills and competences is taken into account, and there is no comparison of study programmes.\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"mb-10 text-base leading-normal\">\n  \nIt is important to mention that the decision to employ a candidate for a particular job depends on the employer, or rather on the previously defined employment requirements.\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"mb-10 text-base leading-normal\">\n  \nSince the 1<sup>st<\/sup>\u00a0July 2004, the Republic of Croatia has been conducting the procedure of the recognition of foreign higher education qualifications in accordance with the Act on the Recognition of Foreign Educational Qualifications (Official Gazette 158\/2003, 198\/2003, 138\/2006 and 45\/2011), and since the 25<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0June 2022 it will continue to conduct it in accordance with the Act on the Recognition and Assessment of Foreign Educational Qualifications (Official Gazette 69\/2022), which is based on the principles of the Lisbon Convention on Recognition of Higher Education Qualifications in Europe\u00a0 from the 11<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0April 1997, and the Act on Ascertaining of the Convention on the Recognition of Qualifications concerning Higher Education in the European Region (Official Gazette<a href=\"https:\/\/narodne-novine.nn.hr\/clanci\/medunarodni\/2002_07_9_118.html\">\u00a0\u2013 International Treaties, no. 9\/02 and 15\/02<\/a>). With the adoption of the 2004 Recognition Act, the previous Act on the Recognition of Foreign School Certificates and University Diplomas (Official Gazette, 57\/96 and 21\/00), on the basis of which the so-called\u00a0<em>nostrification<\/em>\u00a0process had been carried out, had ceased to be valid.\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"mb-10 text-base leading-normal\">\n  \n<strong>Basic terms<\/strong>\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"mb-10 text-base leading-normal\">\n  \n1)&nbsp;<em>Foreign educational qualification<\/em>&nbsp;refers to a set of integrated units of learning outcomes of a given level, volume, profile, type and quality. The qualification is attested by a certificate, diploma or other public documents issued by an accredited legal entity.\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"mb-10 text-base leading-normal\">\n  \n2)&nbsp;<em>Recognition of a foreign educational qualification&nbsp;<\/em>refers to the acknowledgement of the value of a foreign educational qualification issued by a competent authority for the purpose of accessing or continuing education.\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"mb-10 text-base leading-normal\">\n  \n3)<em>&nbsp;Recognition of a period of study&nbsp;<\/em>refers to the acknowledgement of units of learning outcomes acquired abroad prior to acquiring a foreign educational qualification for the purpose of continuing education in the Republic of Croatia.\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"mb-10 text-base leading-normal\">\n  \n4)&nbsp;<em>Assessment of a foreign educational qualification&nbsp;<\/em>refers to the process of determining the level, volume, profile and quality of a foreign educational qualification, as well as all the rights conferred by that qualification in its country of origin.\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"mb-10 text-base leading-normal\">\n  \n5)&nbsp;<em>Automatic recognition of a foreign educational qualification&nbsp;<\/em>means granting the qualification holder the right to access continued education at a Croatian higher education institution without going through a recognition procedure.\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"mb-10 text-base leading-normal\">\n  \n6)&nbsp;<em>Automatic recognition of a period of study&nbsp;<\/em>refers to the recognition of learning outcomes acquired during a study period abroad for the purpose of accessing continued education at a Croatian higher education institution without going through a recognition procedure.\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"mb-10 text-base leading-normal\">\n  \n7)&nbsp;<em>Education and training institution&nbsp;<\/em>is a primary and secondary school or an institution for adult education that has been approved for delivering primary and secondary education programmes in the Republic of Croatia.\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"mb-10 text-base leading-normal\">\n  \n8)&nbsp;<em>Bodies<\/em>&nbsp;<em>in charge of recognition&nbsp;<\/em>are the agency in charge of science and higher education, the agency in charge of vocational and adult education, the agency in charge of education and training, and higher education institutions.\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"mb-10 text-base leading-normal\">\n  \n9)&nbsp;<em>Bodies in charge of assessment<\/em>&nbsp;are the agency in charge of science and higher education, the agency in charge of vocational and adult education and the agency in charge of education and training (furthermore: competent agencies).\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"mb-10 text-base leading-normal\">\n  \n10)&nbsp;<em>Opinion of a foreign educational qualification&nbsp;<\/em>is a document issued by a competent agency on the basis of a conducted assessment of a foreign educational qualification.\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"mb-10 text-base leading-normal\">\n  \n11)&nbsp;<em>Informational document on a foreign education qualification&nbsp;<\/em>is a document issued by a competent agency upon the request of asylum seekers or persons under subsidiary or temporary protection who lack documentation to prove their foreign educational qualification.\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"mb-10 text-base leading-normal\">\n  \n12)&nbsp;<em>Central<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.studij.hr\/\">&nbsp;<em>applications procedure<\/em><\/a>&nbsp;is a centralised procedure for applying to study programmes at higher education institutions and secondary education, conducted by the agency in charge of science and higher education.\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"mb-10 text-base leading-normal\">\n  \n13)&nbsp;<em>Documents that attest a foreign educational qualification&nbsp;<\/em>include certificates, diplomas and other documents attesting to a completed programme.\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"mb-10 text-base leading-normal\">\n  \n14)&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.azvo.hr\/hr\/?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=1628:uredi-za-akademsko-priznavanje-inozemnih-visokoskolskih-kvalifikacija&amp;catid=57\"><em>Office for academic recognition<\/em><\/a>&nbsp;shall be established at every university, polytechnic and college for the purpose of conducting professional and administrative tasks related to the academic recognition of foreign higher education qualifications and periods of study, in accordance with general legal acts of a university, polytechnic or college. The Office\u2019s organisation, purview and mode of operation shall be prescribed by the general legal acts of a university, polytechnic or college, in accordance with the Act on Amendments to the Act on the Recognition of Foreign Educational Qualifications.\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the new Act on the Recognition and Assessment of Foreign Educational Qualifications (Official Gazette&nbsp;69\/2022) came into force on the 25th&nbsp;June 2022, it signalled a halt of the previous administrative procedure of the recognition of foreign higher education qualifications, and the introduction of the procedure of assessment of higher education qualifications that serves as a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azvo.hr\/en\/foreign-education-qualifications\/assessment-of-foreign-higher-education-qualifications\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":169,"featured_media":12931,"parent":19824,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Assessment of Foreign Higher Education Qualifications - AZVO<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azvo.hr\/inozemne-obrazovne-kvalifikacije\/vrednovanje-inozemnih-visokoskolskih-kvalifikacija\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Assessment of Foreign Higher Education Qualifications - AZVO\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"When the new Act on the Recognition and Assessment of Foreign Educational Qualifications (Official Gazette&nbsp;69\/2022) came into force on the 25th&nbsp;June 2022, it signalled a halt of the previous administrative procedure of the recognition of foreign higher education qualifications, and the introduction of the procedure of assessment of higher education qualifications that serves as a &hellip; 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