Validating Qualifications
If you have a University degree and want it to be valid in Spain, you will have to validate it with the Spanish equivalent.
The validation of a higher education degree obtained or given abroad by Spanish authorities, involves the official validity of the document in Spain. Validation means complete equality of academic effects between the foreign and the Spanish degree.
University degrees, master degrees and doctorates can all be validated.
In Spain the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports grants or denies validation of foreign higher education degrees.
The process starts by submitting, on an official form, the documents and a petition. These documents can eventually be complemented with the applicant's academic or scientific curriculum as well as with the corresponding subjects programs. Such programs will have to show the contents of each subject, as well as to which extent they were studied. A further complement would consist of supplying the academic documentation showing that the student passed all the previous studies required to complete the degree.
All documents supplied must be legalized. The legalization process is different according to the country that issued the degree.
Regarding validation procedures, once the petition with all the required documentation has been submitted, the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports, must submit the file to the University Board Academic Committee, which has up to three months to grant validation. Should there be an international agreement or treaty to which Spain belongs, the last step is unnecessary.
The resolution of a validation grant for foreign higher education degrees is legalized by means of a credential issued by the Ministry of Education, Sports and Culture, after the corresponding tax payment.
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We can help you validate your teaching qualification. How? Follow these steps:
1.- Contact us and we will inform you of a series of documents that you need to get from the University or teacher training college where you studied.
2.- Send us the documents (or certified photocopies) and we will have them translated, stamped and processed .We take on the Spanish beaurocratic system for you!
3.- Once the documents have been translated we check and send them to the relevant authorities.
4.- If all documents are in order, we will receive a certificate on your behalf, which will allow you to legally work as a teacher anywhere in Spain.
