CREDITS, GRADES, CREDIT ACCUMULATION AND CREDIT TRANSFER

RELEVANT ARTICLES RCP

5. The provisions referring to the assessment of foreign qualifications shall apply, mutatis mutandis, to the assessment of periods of study.
40. Competent recognition authorities should be encouraged to focus on the learning outcomes, as well as the quality of the delivery of an educational programme and to consider its duration as merely one indication of the level of achievement reached at the end of the programme. The assessment process should acknowledge that recognition of prior learning, credit transfer, different forms of access to higher education, joint degrees and life-long learning will all shorten the duration of some academic qualifications without diminishing the learning outcomes and a decision not to grant recognition should not be motivated by duration alone.