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TAICEP Professional Development Webinar:
Educational Documentation: What can I expect?
Cameroon, Nigeria and Rwanda
Cecilia George, Credential Evaluator
Swedish Council for Higher Education, ENIC-NARIC Sweden
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introduction
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Nigeria
• The world’s 8th most populated country • English official language • British influence on the education
system • Growing economy, middle income
country >> students go abroad for studies
• Federal state, 36 states + Abuja territory
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Nigeria – Educational chart (source: Australian Government, Department of Education and Training, https://internationaleducation.gov.au/CEP)
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West African Examinations Council - WAEC
WAEC Scratch Card >> Use it at www.waecdirect.org to verify credentials!
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National Examinations Council (NECO) • The NECO Senior School
Certificate issued 2000-2006 can be verified using a scratch card with a pincode at www.neconigeria.org
NB: Only the SSC, WASSC and NECO are official documents!
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Nigeria HE 79 public universities (40 federal, 39 state); no national format
Background text across the document
Nigerian Mint watermark
Fibres visible in UV-light
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Nigeria HE
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Nigeria – Notification/Statement of results
- Issued directly after finalized studies
- Always signed For: Registrar - Should give
information about the degree awarded, main subject studied, classification of results.
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Nigeria – official transcripts
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Cameroon: Two systems in one
• An Anglophone (North-West and South-West regions) and a Francophone (other regions) system of education
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Cameroon – Educational chart (source: Australian Government, Department of Education and Training, https://internationaleducation.gov.au/CEP)
Higher Education
Primary, Secondary & Senior Secondary School
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Cameroon, Samples of stamps
Univ. de Dschang, Head of Faculty of Law 2011
University of Buea, Registrar 2014
The Cameroon Coat of Arms
Univ. Yaoundé 1, 2008. Dean of faculty (FALSH)
Prof. of the dept. of African Literature
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Cameroon – Francophone senior secondary school documents 2001-2013 Office du Baccalauréat du Cameroun (OBC)
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Baccalauréat, Relevé de notes Accept only official documents issued by the Office du Baccalauréat du Cameroun Be suspicious if you see to high grades Scale 0 – 20, 10 = ”admis”; Anything above 15 is very good.
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Baccalauréat, new format since 2014
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Cameroon – Anglophone senior secondary school documents 1. O-levels Old format until 2006 2. A-levels New format after 2007
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1. Degree certificate, University of Buea 2. Transcript of records - Relevé de notes, University Yaoundé I
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Cameroon – Higher Education credentials: Attestation de réussite/Attestation of Results
Few degree certificates are issued by state universities, except from Buea and Ngaounderé and the Ecoles Supéreieures
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Cameroon – Relevé de notes
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Cameroon – Student academic record, Buea
Request official transcripts from University of Buea Signed by the Univ. Registrar: • Dr Herbert Nganjo Endeley,
Oct. 1993 — Oct. 2005 • Prof. Victor Julius Ngoh, Oct.
2005 — Dec. 2007 • Chief Prof. Samson N.
Abangma, Dec. 2007 — Jan. 2014
• Prof. Roland Ndip, Feb. 2014 -
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Rwanda • 1962 Independence from Belgium
• 1994 The Rwandian Genocide
• 1995 Reforms and new language policy
• 2005-07 ”Bologna” reforms, new HE Act
• 2009 Member of the British
Commonwealth
• 2010 English official language and
language of instruction in education
RWANDA
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Advanced General Certificate of Secondary Education
Issued by Rwanda National Examinations Council until 2010 Official Certificate, printed on security paper UV-light seal
watermarks
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Secondary school documentation: Confirmation of results, unofficial docs.
After 2010: Documents issued in English only. After 2011: All secondary school documents are issued by the new authority - Rwanda Education Board Signed by the same Director General: Dr. John Rutayisire
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National University of Rwanda • Template for degrees
1994 – 2009 • Seals: Ministry of Education
and Université Nationale du Rwanda
• Bilingual French-English • Degrees often issued very
much later than the studies were finalized
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National University of Rwanda: Diploma Template 2009 -2013 Secure document Bologna process ajusted degrees
microtext
Dry seal
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National University of Rwanda, Academic transcript • One document per year of study • Credit system • Issued in English only • Promotion to next year of studies
should be indicated • Signature + verification on the
backside of each document
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University of Rwanda Established 2013, as a merger of other HEIs: • College of Arts and Humanities (National
University of Rwanda, NUR) • College of Business and Economics (School
of Finance and Banking, SFB) • College of Science and Technology (Kigali
Institute of Science and Technology, KIST) • College of Education (Kigali Institute of
Education, KIE) • College of Medicine and Health Sciences
(Kigali Heath Institute, KHI) • College of Agriculture, Animal Sciences and
Veterinary Medicine (Higher Institute of Agriculture and Livestock, ISAE)
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Thank you for your attention!
Questions?
Cecilia George
Credential Evaluator
ENIC-NARIC Sweden
E-mail: [email protected]