Non-profit social enterprise World Education Services has invested in global verification company Qualification Check, the partners have announced.

Online degrees from foreign institutions will not be recognised in India under proposed guidelines from the country’s higher education regulator. 

A qualifications recognition agreement between Australia and India to streamline education and career pathways was announced as well as a range of TNE plans, as a delegation of education leaders from Australia visited the country.

Australia has officially joined a UNESCO framework allowing qualifications from its institutions to be recognised internationally.

In a landmark development, India and Australia have set up a task force for qualifications recognition between the two countries, which stakeholders hope will "lead to tangible outcomes in the near future".

Kenyan authorities will recognise prior learning to ease credit transfers as it continues to make the country a regional international education hub.

India and the UK are to collaborate on mutual recognition of academic qualifications, the countries have announced, as they seek a "closer relationship".

UNESCO's first global framework to recognise academic qualifications is expected to reduce obstacles faced by internationally mobile students and displaced people.