The Education Act regulates two general ways of recognising proof of education from a foreign school in the Czech Republic:
Nostrification is carried out if the certificate from a foreign school does not have an equivalent status to the certificate issued by a primary, secondary or higher vocational school on the basis of an international treaty on mutual recognition of educational documents.
Nostrification is carried out at the request of the competent regional authority according to your place of residence.
A specific Czech field of study is always assigned to a foreign field of education.
The Regional Authority assesses the content and scope of education completed in a foreign school and compares it with a similar framework educational program (hereinafter also RVP) in the Czech Republic. In the case of higher vocational schools, the Regional Authority assesses education according to accredited educational programmes valid in the Czech Republic.
If the content and scope of your education in a foreign school:
Differences in the content and scope of education shall not be taken into account if the foreign certificate was issued under the law of a Member State of the European Union and if the outcomes of the education received are comparable to those under this Act on the basis of the standards applied in the European Union. In that case, the request for nostrification shall be granted.
An application shall also be granted if a foreign certificate issued under the law of a Member State of the European Union is regarded in the Member State concerned as a document entitling the applicant to access to higher education. Therefore, if your proof of education is the equivalent of a school-leaving examination certificate in a Member State of the European Union and entitles you to access university studies in that State, the regional authority will recognise your certificate from a foreign school without you having to pass any nostrification examination.
In the case of recognition of the validity of a foreign certificate issued to graduates of the Czech lyceum sections in Dijon or Nîmes and to graduates of the bi-national bilingual educational cycle of the Friedrich Schiller Gymnasium in Pirna, the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports is competent to issue a decision.
Nostrification of the certificate can be solved at any time after obtaining proof of achieving primary, secondary or higher vocational education from a foreign school.
You must submit an application for the nostrification of a certificate from a foreign school with the relevant attachments.
Use the form available on the website of the regional authorities to submit your application:
The application shall include the necessary annexes:
Unless an international treaty by which the Czech Republic is bound provides otherwise, the authenticity of the signatures and imprints of stamps on the originals of foreign certificates and the recognition of a foreign school by the State under whose law the foreign certificate was issued must be verified:
The application shall be accompanied at the same time by an officially certified translation into the Czech language, unless it is a Slovak language.
You deal with the service at the regional authority with territorial jurisdiction over your place of residence in the Czech Republic or, if you are a foreign national, over your place of residence in the Czech Republic.
If the territorial jurisdiction of a regional authority cannot be determined by reference to your place of permanent residence or place of residence, it is determined by the place of application.
The application is subject to a fee of CZK 3 000, which must be paid to the competent regional authority.
You must submit an application for the nostrification of a certificate from a foreign school.
Use the form available on the website of the regional authorities to submit your application:
The application shall include the necessary annexes:
Unless an international treaty by which the Czech Republic is bound provides otherwise, the authenticity of the signatures and imprints of stamps on the originals of foreign certificates and the recognition of a foreign school by the State under whose law the foreign certificate was issued must be verified :
The application shall be accompanied by an officially certified translation of the annexes into Czech if they are drawn up in a language other than Czech or Slovak.
You deal with the service at the regional authority with territorial jurisdiction according to your place of residence in the Czech Republic or, if you are a foreign national, according to your place of residence in the Czech Republic.
If the territorial jurisdiction of a regional authority cannot be determined by reference to your place of permanent residence or place of residence, it is determined by the place of application.
The application may be submitted via the data box of the regional authority by means of an electronic document bearing an electronic signature.
Data boxes of regional authorities:
The application is subject to a fee of CZK 3 000, which must be paid to the competent regional authority.
A certified certificate from a foreign school has the same validity in the Czech Republic as a certificate obtained in a Czech school.
The Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports decides on the appeal against the decision on the application for nostrification.
The appeal is filed through the regional authority that decided on the application.
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There is no such list. Each application shall be assessed on the basis of the content and scope of the subjects submitted for examination by the applicant. The Regional Authority will assess the content and scope of education completed in a foreign school against education under a similar framework educational programme in the Czech Republic, in particular the ‘relative’ of subjects in the ‘Czech’ framework educational programme to education completed abroad and the framework agreement of their hourly subsidy. A certified translation of those documents into Czech must be made by an interpreter registered in the Czech Republic on the list of experts and interpreters . The list of court interpreters is available on the website of the Ministry of Justice (www.justice.cz – experts and interpreters). In the case of a document drawn up in the Slovak language, a translation into the Czech language is not required.
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