Benelux, Baltic states’ degree recognition deal kicks off

On Wednesday 1 May, an agreement on the automatic recognition of higher education degrees between the Benelux and the Baltic states came into effect, reports LETA/BNS/TBT.

The Dutch parliament was the last of the six national parliaments to approve the agreement, which facilitates academic mobility between Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg, and promotes cooperation between universities in research and teaching activities, as well as students’ entry into the job market.

“One of the key objectives of the European Higher Education Area is the transition to automatic recognition of higher education qualifications, which means that diplomas and degrees would be recognised without time-consuming assessment and comparison,” Gunnar Vaht, the director of the Academic Recognition Information Centre at the Estonian Education and Youth Board, said in a press release.
Full report on The Baltic Times site