User-friendly guidelines to help implement Global Recognition Convention
UK ENIC is furthering its work to help people across the globe who want their qualifications recognised in order to work, live and or study in other countries.
A four-strong UK delegation to UNESCO for the Global Recognition Convention (GRC), including Chris Lyons, UK ENIC Head of External Engagement, is contributing to a new working group developing user-friendly operational guidelines to help countries implement the GRC, and to adhere to it in the most effective ways.
Chris Lyons says: ‘The group is considering the many and varied recognition challenges that currently exist and looking to find ways to resolve them. It is also working to ensure the GRC provides maximum benefit not only to signatories to the GRC but also, crucially, to individual qualification-holders looking to work and study in other countries.
The UK delegation comprises: Anne Anderson, Chair of the UK National Commission for UNESCO; Maxim Polya-Vitry, UK Permanent Delegation to UNESCO, British Embassy Paris; Pamela Wilkinson, International Education, UK Department for Education; and Chris Lyons, UK ENIC Head of External Engagement.
Earlier this year, the UK delegation worked alongside the other States Parties to the GRC to ensure the adoption of a work programme, which focuses on:
- Further developing the draft operational guidelines to facilitate the GRC’s implementation
- Developing a draft recommendation on the relationship between the GRC and the other regional conventions
- Research and capacity building activities, and
- Advocacy and communication to promote understanding and awareness of the GRC.
The new working group’s first meeting to begin to develop the operational guidelines took place last month and included delegations from Australia, Norway, Uruguay, Japan, Tunisia, Holy See, and other countries. It was followed by the production of a draft version of operational guidelines and an intense period of feedback.
The working group is scheduled to meet again on 6 September.