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Start - Swedish Council for Higher Education

An agency with many tasks

The Swedish Council for Higher Education, UHR, is a government agency whose responsibilities span across the education sector.

Recognition of qualifications

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  • ENIC-NARIC Sweden
  • Erasmus+ Sweden
  • Assistance Centre for professional qualifications
  • Euroguidance
  • RPL in Practice
  • Laws and regulations
  • Qualifications Assessment Tool
  • Qualification frameworks (SeQF)

News

  • Listen to a pod about evaluation of foreign qualifications

    18 January 2021

    UHR was a recent guest on the Swedish Public Employment Service’s podcast “New in Sweden”. The ...

  • Bazaren 2020

    2 December 2020

    Bazaren is Sweden's largest fair for jobs, education and starting a company. UHR will be partic...

  • Diversity – an advantage for UHR

    17 November 2020

    UHR’s Department for Qualifications Recognition works with assessing educational qualifications...

  • Sweden’s reference framework for qualifications

    10 November 2020

    Sweden’s reference framework for qualifications, SeQF, presents learning at all levels from pri...

  • Web service for recognition of foreign qualifications – now in English

    5 November 2020

    The Swedish Council for Higher Education’s (UHR) web service for recognition of foreign qualifi...

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Information related to the coronavirus outbreak

The Swedish Council for Higher Education is carefully following the situation as it develops regarding the coronavirus.

What a foreign qualification corresponds to in Sweden


In the Qualifications Assessment Tool you can easily find out what your foreign qualification corresponds to in Sweden. 

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The Swedish Council for Higher Education is a government agency whose responsibilities span across the education sector.

Contact

Swedish Council for Higher Education
PO Box 4030
SE-171 04 Solna

Telephone +46 (0)10-470 03 00
(closed for lunch 12:00–13:00)

Visiting address Solna strandväg 132B, Solna

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