Diploma Supplement

DIPLOMA SUPPLEMENT

Diploma Supplement (DS), is a certificate given along with the higher education diploma which describes the level, content and knowledge, skill and competences the graduates acquire within this scope of the education received in a format whose standards are determined by European Commission and UNESCO/CEPES. DS completes the information on the diplomas by making the education received by the students more understandable by the employers, the establishments and the institutions outside the country it is given. 

Diploma Supplement is one of the documents which came to existence in the studies of European Higher Education Area and one of the Europass documents, helps the university students in introducing the education they receive to the systems of other countries and education, and at the same time, provides detailed information about the academic degree, level, content and professional qualifications that the graduate acquires.

Benefits of Diploma Supplement;

• Having a more easily understood and compared diploma abroad,
• It involves a perfect definition of the qualifications the student acquires during his/her academic development and learning,
• An impartial statement on the student’s achievement and qualifications,
• It enables an easier access to job opportunities or advanced overseas education means,
• It supports being able to be employed.

Benefits of Diploma Supplement for Higher Education Institutions

• It increases transparency of the qualifications by enabling the academic and professional recognition,
• While presenting a common framework accepted all around Europe, it also protects national and institutional autonomy at the same time,
• It enables the evaluation of the qualifications acquired by comprehending them in a different educational context easily,
• It enables more recognition of the institution abroad,
• It makes the employment of the graduates on national and international level easier,
• In terms of the content and the recognition of the diplomas, it enables answering many questions from the administrative units of the institutions and saves time.

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