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Sulik: Slovak Doctorates Won't Be Recognised in Germany Due to Fraud
Thursday 01 April 2010 Zoom in | Print page
Bratislava, April 1 (TASR) - The extra-parliamentary Freedom and Solidarity (SaS) party, which hopes to get into Parliament after the June 12 general election, has learnt that doctorate degrees gained in Slovak universities won't be recognised in Germany, party co-founder and chairman Richard Sulik said on Friday.
Referring to documentary evidence available to TASR, Sulik told reporters that Germany's Central Office for Foreign Education (ZAB) earlier this year decided not recognise doctorate degrees awarded in Slovakia.
"This is a major embarrassment for Slovakia. People wanting to have their education duly appraised are forced to apply for individual reassessment," said Sulik.
He thinks that the reason for this isn't that Slovak doctorate degrees are of lower value than German ones. "There have often been well-founded doubts as to the legal acquisition of degrees. The reason is that many of them have been gained by fraud," he said.
ZAB is a department of the secretariat of the Permanent Conference of the Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs of the Länder (KMK) in the Federal Republic of Germany. It's the central office for rating and ranking foreign school and university certificates.
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