Don State Technical University

С enter of Evaluation of Education Documents

(CEED)

344000, sq. Gagarina 1, 
Block  8,  office 551,
Rostov-on-Don
Email: roseland2003@mail.ru
Tel/fax: (863)273-84-23

For rendering assistance to the interested legal and physical persons in recognition of foreign educational documents in 2006 within the limits of Federal Target Program of Development of Education on the basis of the Don State Technical University was founded and actively operates the unique specialized expert center in Southern federal district (SFD), working with documents of various categories of the foreign and Russian students who received previous education abroad. Center of Educational Documents Evaluation of Don State Technical University has a huge operational experience with foreign educational documents, spends annual intensive training seminars according to foreign educational documents, cooperates practically with all higher education institutions of  SFD and with separate higher education institutions of Central and Far East districts, is engaged in research work. Centre gathers database from samples of educational documents from various countries of the world, procedures the ways of revealing of "doubtful" and fraudulent educational documents, including diploma mills educational documents.
Activity of Center is highly appreciated by Federal Service on Supervision in Sphere of Education and Science, Center constantly turns out high responses about its work from higher education institutions and applicants.
List of Services

·      ORGANIZATION And CARRYING outEvaluation Procedure of the FOREIGN educational  DOCUMENT  (Credential) in the purpose of POSSIBLE RECOGNITION.      According to the positions of the Contract between Federal Service on Supervision in Sphere of Education and Science and Don State Technical University and the order of the rector CEDE carries out the organization of examination of foreign educational documents in the purpose of possible recognition the last on the territory of Russian Federation.
·      Term of performance -2months. Process of foreign documents examination can be prolonged in case of making inquiry for additional information or in term of prolonging of registration of the recognition certificate in Federal Service on Supervision in Sphere of Education and Science.
·      TRANSFER of ESTIMATIONS of KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS FROM NATIONAL SCALE INTO RUSSIAN SCALE OF Estimation
      Term of performance - 5 working days.
·      RECALCULATION OF academic load.
Term of performance - 7 working days.
·      CONSULTATIONS CONCERNING RECOGNITION of EDUCATIONAL DOCUMENTS in Russia.

• European Diploma Supplement issue to all year graduation DSTU graduates.

Stages of carrying out of an estimation

I.    Stage - organization of examination in CEED of the presented foreign education documents for a possible recognition. This stage is accompanied by delivery of the preliminary conclusion on the lead examination, which, according to the legislation, has a recommendatory character.
 
II.  Stage - in case of getting positive results from carried out examination - transfer of presented documents to Federal Service on Supervision in Sphere of Education and Science of Russian Federation. As a result of the lead work at this stage the recognition certificate is issued according to the established form of Federal Service on Supervision in Sphere of Education and Science, certified by the signature and a seal. We pay your attention, that certificates which were issued by other organizations exept federal service have no validity (Instructive letter od federal service  № 01-159/05-01 from October, 12th, 2004).
Higher educational institution has no right to issue diploma, to give degree (qualification) to the foreign citizen, studying on contact basis, without the official document on recognition of his previous education which must be issued on the form of Federal Service on Supervision in Sphere of Education and
Science. The foreign citizens accepted in higher educational institution according to the international contracts and in directions of Ministry of Education and Science (state students), are enlisted on the basis of a direction of Federal Agency Education (Instructive letter № 01-334/05-01 from July, 26th, 2005).

order of carrying out of education document EVALUATION

Cases of evaluation

·      Further training in Russian higher educational institution,
·      Account of before studied disciplines,
·     Professional work (except for medical specialities);
·      Establishment of authenticity of the foreign education document,
·      Establishment of equivalence of an educational level,
·      Recalculation of estimations from national into Russian system of the account and calculation of subject hourly loading, etc.

Requirements to documents

·      Documents should be original, issued according to laws of the country which had given out the document. 
·      It is necessary to give originals of education documents, or notarially certified copies of education documents.
·       In case of necessity CEED can require additional information or confirming documents.
·      During establishment of authenticity of education document on it is possible to direct an inquiry to the foreign educational institution.
For certain countries there are special arrangements. In those cases you have to send along:

• for American diplomas of higher education: besides the diploma a certified copy of the academic
  transcript needs to be handed over.
• for Polish diplomas of higher education: besides the diploma a certified copy of the summary of the
  taken subjects, the indeks, provided by the educational institute, needs to be handed over. This
  summary is sometimes automatically provided by the educational institute, in some cases the
  student has to ask for it. If the summary is not available, a certified copy of the indeks must be
  handed over.
• for Turkish diplomas of higher education: instead of the graduation diploma a certified copy of the
  provisional evidence of graduation, for example a mezuniyet belgesi may be handed over.
• for Moroccan programmes of higher education: the statement of graduation must be submitted in
  the language of the country (in this case Arabic). In case of the Baccalaureats diplomas the list of
  subjects taken is not enough evidence, also the graduation list of subjects taken needs to be
  handed over.
• for Iraqi programmes of higher education, the statement of graduation must be submitted in the
  language of the country (in this case Arabic).
• for Iranian programmes of higher education, the statement of graduation must be submitted in the
  language of the country (in this case Farsi or Persian).

Package of documents for carrying out of an evaluation of educational documents

• Accompanying letter-application of the high school, signed by the head of the international service/department, with the inventory of documents transferred for examination (for education institutions);
• Application form for starting of carrying out of examination procedure;
• Questionnaire;
• A copy of passport of applicant (with translation if the text of the passport is executed in foreign language);
• Copy of visa;
• The original of education document and the original of the appendix to it with the indication of the passed training courses and volume (hours, credits, educational weeks) of received final estimations, list of passed practice work, course and final qualifying works and other components of educational process. The original of education document and the original of the appendix to it should be legalized due hereunder;
• Two notarially certified copies of education document and appendices to it;
• Two copies of notarially certified translation into Russian of the document on education and appendices to it;
• To the persons who have graduated from the not state educational institutions, it is necessary to present in addition the inquiry from the central controls education of the country about delivery of the document on education, about the status of an educational institution and documents given out by it on education;
• For carrying out of a recognition and an establishment of equivalence of documents

·      About second higher education,
·      About development of educational program on  reduced terms of training,
·      About the termination of a magistracy,
·    About end or the period of training abroad (in case of partial development of educational program on the territory of the Russian Federation) documents on the previous education are represented in addition.

• The receipt of payment on invoice of DSTU.

For the countries which have signed the Hague Convention of 1961., presence of a stamp "Apostille" which is put down only in the country which has given out the document on education is obligatory. The information on the authorized bodies can be received in embassies of the countries which have given out documents on education.

For other countries legalization in the Ministries for Foreign Affairs of the country which have given out the document on education is obligatory. Besides the inquiry from embassy of the country which has given out the document on education, about the state accreditation of an educational institution is given.

Contact Information

• Our address:  344000, sq. Gagarina 1,  block  8,  office 551, Rostov-on-Don 
• Phone/fax: +7 (863) 273-84-23
• Email:  roseland2003@mail.ru
• Working Hours:   Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday from 9.00 - 13.00, 14.00-17.00, break 13.00-14.00