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ty, the European networks for the educational background, any exist- cess documents in Arabic with
recognition of academic and pro- ing and available supporting docu- no need of a translation and en-
fessional qualifications, ENIC/ ments concerning their particular quiries will be responded to by
NARIC, have developed a guid- education as well as the Agency’s e-mail to the municipalities with-
ing document for institutions on knowledge of the respective coun- in a few days.
the recognition of refugees’ qual- try’s educational system.
ifications. Progression into the job mar-
This system of counselling and ket
evaluation of foreign qualifications The aim of the system of evalua-
Assessment at the Danish has existed since 2003 but is par- tion and recognition of refugees’
Agency for Higher Education ticularly important now in the midst qualifications, which includes the
At the Danish Agency for Higher of a refugee crisis, where many find new hotline, is to have a more
Education, anyone with complet- themselves without the relevant effective and faster progression
ed and documented foreign qual- documents. of refugees into the job market
ifications can receive an evalu- – something which is of great
ation, which assesses what the Hotline ensures effective and importance to the Danish gov-
Danish equivalent of the particu- quick evaluation ernment.
lar qualification is. When a person In order to complement this, a new-
is not able to obtain or present ly developed tool in the form of a Allan Bruun Pedersen, Danish
the necessary documents, the hotline has also been established Agency for Higher Education
Agency offers an advisory state- by the Agency. It is meant to assist
ment in the form of a background municipalities and asylum centers Natalie Clausen and Birtha
paper describing the refugees’ with guidance counselling and eval- Theut, Euroguidance Denmark
qualifications. This is based on uating refugees’ education, making
information that the applicants the process more effective. For ex-
provide themselves about their ample, the hotline is able to pro-