Validation of foreign diplomas
This validation takes place at School and Education department of the Regional Government authorities. Every Regional Government authority employs a person responsible for diploma validation. Ing. Dagmar Kostrhůnová is the responsible person at Southern Moravia regional government authority (see contact information bellow)
Validation of foreign diplomas is a very complicated process and runs under system of administrative governance. Validation process of foreign educational outputs isn’t subordinate just to Czech legislation but most importantly to international agreements that are favored for document validation. There are different regulations in approach to different countries in mutual diploma validation. Every request is reviewed individually and for this reason it is very hard to make generalizations of this process.
Basic rules that apply for most countries
All applicants for diploma validation must present checked (authorized by official authority) copy of finished secondary school diploma translated into Czech language by official translator. Then there must be presented list of all passed subjects from all school years (semesters) called ‘subject plan’. This plan must contain all subjects and numbers of lessons assigned to each subject. It has to be checked (authorized by official authority) and translated too.
Differences among countries:
- applicants from countries that signed the mutual agreement of legal help do not need any additional verifications (except the basic rules mentioned above) E.g. Belarus, Belgium, France, Italy, Croatia, Cyprus, Russia, Greece, Spain, Switzerland, Ukraine, and others)
- applicants from countries that did not sign the above mentioned mutual agreement with CZ but joined the Haag convention, must get one more stamp called ‘apostilla’ that is given by ministry of foreign affairs or at special office assigned by the applicant’s country (most other European countries including UK, and USA, Israel, Japan, Australia)
- applicants from all other countries must get the so-called ‘super-legalization’ of their diploma. Means they has to obtain stamp from their foreign ministry of foreign affairs and also from Czech embassy in the country.
Validation of foreign diploma is not an easy process that why we advise to contact responsible person (clerk) at regional authority (Krajsky urad). It is highly recommended to start the validation process at least 6 weeks ahead prior to term of giving the validated diploma to school. There needs to be enough time to fulfill all requirements.
Contact person for Southern Moravia region – Brno city
Ing. Dagmar Kostrhůnová, department of education ‘Krajský úřad Jihomoravského kraje’ Address: Cejl 73, door number C226,
Phone: 541 65 35 27, e-mail: kostrhunova.dagmar@kr-jihomoravsky.cz.
Working hours:
MO + WE 8.00 to 17.00
TU + TH 8.00 to 15.00, FR 8.00 to 12.00
Please make appointment!