Central office for foreign education
The Central Office for Foreign Education (ZAB) is a department of the Secretariat of the Conference of Ministers of Education (KMK).
The ZAB maintains the anabin database , an information portal for evaluating foreign educational certificates. Together with the "Recognition in Germany" portal and the "BQ-Portal", anabin is one of the three central information offers on the subject of recognition of foreign professional qualifications .
The task of the anabin database is to provide information on foreign educational institutions, which are intended to provide private individuals and persons under public law with information on the structure and appreciation of the individual institutions. According to the ZAB , this information was compiled responsibly , but it does not make any claim to the completeness and content of the database.
For a fee of 200 euros, you can obtain a certificate evaluation for university degrees from any country in the world from the ZAB. Such a certificate evaluation describes a foreign university qualification and certifies its professional and academic application possibilities. The evaluation of the certificates indicates the level of the German educational qualification with which the foreign qualification is comparable and also provides information about the possibility of continuing studies, the legal basis of the degree and the procedures for professional recognition. However, the evaluation of the certificate itself does not represent recognition as a professional qualification. "It is a comparative classification, but not recognition."
There are separate procedures for regulated academic professions under the Professional Qualification Assessment Act . There is no legal recognition procedure for non-regulated academic professions. As with domestic academic degrees in non-regulated professions, a potential employer is free to decide what value to attach to the degree. The certificate evaluation is intended to increase confidence in foreign qualifications, but ultimately cannot eliminate disadvantages on the labor market due to the fact that the qualification was obtained abroad.
The ZAB is not to be confused with the Federal Office of Administration settled Central Agency for Schools Abroad .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Evaluation of certificates for foreign university qualifications. Retrieved June 24, 2020 .
- ^ Matthias Knuth: Professional recognition and employment integration of immigrants . In: Axel Bolder, Rolf Dobischat , Günter Kutscha and Gerhard Reutter (eds.): Professionalism between institutional change and biographical project. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften 2012 (Education and Work, 4), pp. 127–151.