Quote Originally Posted by lastlid View Post
We had a similar problem. My wife has a degree from a Philippine university but it isnt recognised by UK NARIC, even though it was taught entirely in English.All advice was that she took the A1 english test. Which she did and passed reasonably easily. The problem with it was extra time, stress and expense.
... a completely unnecessary, stressful and expensive waste of time - considering English is the 'medium of instruction' throughout the entire Phils curriculum.

Quote Originally Posted by lastlid View Post
UK NARIC explained that the reason for non acceptance of her degree was because it was a vocational course and not like a degree in the UK.
... we didn't even bother going to the trouble and expense of involving NARIC ... as the Scottish Parliament's Minister for Education made the position clear to our local MSP whom we'd already contacted.