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diploma-Document certifying the successful completion of a course of study, often in the vocational and higher education sectors.

Diploma Supplement-A document attached to a higher education diploma aiming at improving international ‘transparency’ and at facilitating the academic and professional recognition of qualifications (diplomas, degrees, certificates etc.). It is designed to provide a description of the nature, level, context, content and status of the studies that were pursued and successfully completed by the individual named on the original qualification to which this supplement is appended. It should be free from any value-judgments, equivalence statements or suggestions about recognition. It is a flexible non-prescriptive tool which is designed to save time, money and workload. It is capable of adaptation to local needs. A description of the national higher education system within which the individual named on the original qualification graduated has to be attached to the DS. This description is provided by the National Academic Recognition Information Centres (NARICs) and is available on the website: www.enic-naric.net
Source: Now in EUROPASS documentation http://ec.europa.eu/education/programmes/socrates/ects/index_en.html http:/

distance learning-Learning which may be undertaken in a non-formal setting - physically distanced from the institution/tutor.

Dublin descriptors-Generic statements of typical expectations of achievements and abilities associated with qualifications that represent the end of each Bologna cycle. The descriptors seek to identify the nature of the whole qualification. These will be used in the European Qualifications Framework.