Does ILR confer some European Community rights etc.

[Zebrudaya]

Please members, especially moderators and other "seniors", does ILR confer some EC rights to holders of ILR? I am asking this question because since ILR gives the holders most of the rights of British citizens, ( and often ILR holders often go on to obtain citizenship etc), some of us are confused when we are confronted with some EU regulations e.g. If an ILR holder has a specialist/postgraduate diploma obtained from an EC member country,will he be granted automatic recognition for it as if he has EC rights if he has ILR? This is necessary to clarify because people who don`t have ILR but have specialist diploma from an EC member country are given a harder time before getting recognition for their expertise.

[Jambo]

No.

[ouflak1]

Just to expound on this a bit: Educational qualifications are only as valid as those institutions and organizations willing to accept those qualifications accept them to be. There are few, if any, countries that have deals worked between one another that they will recognize each others school's degrees, diplomas, etc.... All of that stuff is usually left to the schools themselves through a process called accreditation. There are various accrediting boards, nationally (that is, with respect to whatever country the school itself is located) and internationally. This accreditation process can be something as trivial as paying a small fee online, to investigation by a board of academic professionals and vetting based on numbers of students, numbers of professors (who themselves should be graduates of accredited schools), type, level, and number of degree conferring research programs, number and quality of graduate students, endowments and other funding arrangements, facilities, graduation rates, etc, etc....

So a degree from the Technische Universität Graz (Austria) or Stanford University (America) will be instantly recognized and accepted by pretty much everybody worldwide without question. A 'degree' from the London Institute of Technical Education (LITE) might not be recognized as being worth paper it's printed on, even in Birmingham.

And none of this has anything to do with 'rights' to study, work or live in another country. Certainly a degree from an highly accredited institution will carry more weight when applying for a visa to study or work in another country, but that's about it. There is no direct relationship between one's education and one's ability to exercise rights in another country.

[Zebrudaya]

Dear ouflak1 and Jambo

Thank you for your response