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

introduction

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

Nigeria – Educational chart (source: Australian Government, Department of Education and Training, https://internationaleducation.gov.au/CEP)

West African Examinations Council - WAEC

WAEC Scratch Card >> Use it at www.waecdirect.org to verify credentials!

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!

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

Nigeria HE

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.

Nigeria – official transcripts

Cameroon: Two systems in one

• An Anglophone (North-West and South-West regions) and a Francophone (other regions) system of education

Cameroon – Educational chart (source: Australian Government, Department of Education and Training, https://internationaleducation.gov.au/CEP)

Higher Education

Primary, Secondary & Senior Secondary School

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

Cameroon – Francophone senior secondary school documents 2001-2013 Office du Baccalauréat du Cameroun (OBC)

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.

Baccalauréat, new format since 2014

Cameroon – Anglophone senior secondary school documents 1. O-levels Old format until 2006 2. A-levels New format after 2007

1. Degree certificate, University of Buea 2. Transcript of records - Relevé de notes, University Yaoundé I

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

Cameroon – Relevé de notes

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 -

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

Advanced General Certificate of Secondary Education

Issued by Rwanda National Examinations Council until 2010 Official Certificate, printed on security paper UV-light seal

watermarks

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

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

National University of Rwanda: Diploma Template 2009 -2013 Secure document Bologna process ajusted degrees

microtext

Dry seal

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

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)

Thank you for your attention!

Questions?

Cecilia George

Credential Evaluator

ENIC-NARIC Sweden

E-mail: cecilia.george@uhr.se