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General Recommendation for the Award of Credit
When Should Learning Units of Non-University
Education Be Awarded With Credit for Tertiary
Education Programmes?
In a recommendation by the
Kultus-
ministerkonferenz
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of June 28, 2002, regar-
ding the award of credit of skills and
knowledge acquired through non-uni-
versity education for degree program-
mes it is stated that:
„Knowledge and skills acquired outside
the higher education system can be
awarded with credit (if applicable in the
form of blanket accreditation) for higher
education study programme if
all admission requirements for
university entrance are met (where
appropriate exemptions can be made
for outstanding professionals who do
not fulfill these requirements)
their content and academic level are
equivalent to the part of the degree
programme that is to be substituted
the quality and content criteria for
the substitution of study modules
with knowledge and skills that were
acquired outside higher education
programmes are assessed as part of a
certification which complies with the
principles of the new standardization
system of tertiary education. Know-
ledge and skills that were acquired
outside higher education program-
mes can only substitute 50% of a
degree programme maximum“ (KMK,
2002).
This recommendation by the KMK de-
mands both an equivalence in content
and a comparable level of the learning
unit and the study module that is to be
substituted in order to be awarded with
credit.
This recommendation for the award of
credit contains information about the le-
vel of the learning units of the assessed
advanced training programme „Euro-
pean Manager for Foreign Trade - Export
/ Import“. Regarding the substitution of
subject-specific contents of a degree
programme, it is inevitable to also assess
the equivalence in content of the ad-
vanced training programme and the de-
gree programme’s study modules. The
assessment’s basis is formed by the lear-
ning outcomes of the advanced training
programme that were identified by the
comparison of content. Awarding credit
for a study module is recommended
when not less than 70 % of its learning
outcomes are covered by the advanced
training programme.
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Standing Conference of German Ministers of Education (Federal States and federal ministers)
