Bill filed to facilitate recognition of foreign diplomas in Italy
Trieste, 8 March - Tatjana Rojc, a senator of Slovenian descent, has tabled a bill that would make it easier for students who have graduated abroad to have their university degrees recognised in Italy. Rojc has stressed that the current system is lengthy, complicated and expensive.
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Italian Senator Tatjana Rojc.
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Members of the Slovenian minority in Italy often pursue higher education studies in Slovenia, and the minority has been warning about issues regarding recognition of diplomas for quite some time.
Rojc thus acted after these students, who then want to get a job in Italy, told her about the problems they experience, the minority's paper Primorski Dnevnik reported on Friday.
She drafted the bill, filed on Wednesday, in collaboration with her Italian Democratic Party's legal department, working closely with its education legislation expert.
The pair established that automatic recognition would be against the Council of Europe and UNESCO's convention on the recognition of higher education qualifications in Europe.
"That's why we drafted a bill which would enable those who have graduated abroad to apply for jobs in Italy without having to previously have their education recognised.
"In case they are successful in obtaining the job, the would have to prove they are suitably qualified for it, whereby the relevant ministry would act on the principle of silent consent," Rojc told the minority's newspaper.