HAQAA TRAININGS

AFRICAN CREDIT TRANSFER SYSTEM

MODULE 3

International / institutional systems and practices for recognition: how -and how much- specific instruments (transcripts, learning agreements and learning outcomes…)  are needed

Module 3 at a glance

Module 3 will examine the practicalities of student mobility:

  • firstly, it will “unpack” the problem of recognition, a problem that covers three issues that are different in substance and must receive a different treatment.
  • secondly, it will refer to a specific instrument on recognition, the UNESCO Addis Convention, explaining both its political importance and its legal limitations.
  • thirdly (and mainly), it will examine the practicalities of student exchange presenting not so much the “literature” on the topic, but very concrete real examples that are meant to “open the mind” and to demonstrate that student mobility and academic recognition are in the hands of Universities themselves, even in the absence of common legal rules.

How can Module 3 help you?

  • By allowing you to differentiate three different issues concerning “Recognition”
  • By allowing you to understand that the Addis Convention on Recognition, while being useful politically, cannot solve by itself the problems of recognition involved in student mobility
  • By making you aware that the process of student mobility in the European context is, essentially, a bottom-up project based on inter-University agreements
  • By allowing you to understand how these inter-University agreements operate in the EU and could operate in Africa
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INTRODUCTION

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VIDEO RECORDINGS

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  • Addis Abeba Convention on the recognition of studies, certificates, diplomas, degrees and other academic qualifications in higher education in African states
  • How recognition works in Europe, the case of an ENIC NARIC
  • European universities’ practices: how recognition works in practice
  • National and regional regulations on recognition, case studies from selected countries, with a detailed account of how recognition works in practic
    • Senegal
    • Morocco
    • Mozambique
    • CAMES regional convention 1972
    • IUCEA regional frameworks

REFLECTION TASK

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LIVE SESSION

The live session opens with a collective synthesis of participants’ reflection tasks, exchanging results and discussing emerging trends and data gaps identified across the group. The second part turns to practice, with an ACTS Expert moderating a panel of European and African university representatives alongside regional strategic partners, who share concrete examples of how academic recognition works, and where it falls short, in their institutional contexts. The session closes with the ACTS Expert presenting the reflection task for the following module.

REGISTER FOR LIVE SESSION | ANGLOPHONE CLUSTER
SEPTEMBER 15 | 14h00-16h00 (EAT – GMT+3)
REGISTER FOR LIVE SESSION | SOUTHERN AFRICAN CLUSTER
SEPTEMBER 15 | 09h00-11h00 (SAST – GMT+2)