13/11/2019 (Agence Europe) – Member States of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) are expected to vote in the coming days on a draft global convention that would allow the recognition of higher education qualifications from one country to another. Member States that ratify it will undertake to recognise the studies followed by students in their country of origin, to define transparent equivalence criteria and to guarantee them access to their university systems, Agence France Presse summarised. The text, which has been in preparation and under discussion for at least eight years, is to be examined in committee starting Thursday and then submitted for approval to the Member States, meeting in Paris from Tuesday to 27 November at the UNESCO 40th General Conference. If adopted, it will represent a first at the UN level and will complement the five existing regional conventions on the subject. (SPj)