Canadian Information Centre for International Credentials

Disseminates information and acts as a national clearinghouse and referral service to support the recognition and portability of Canadian and international academic and occupational qualifications by:

• Providing information and referral services to individuals and organizations on the recognition of academic and occupational credentials for working and studying in Canada and abroad;
• Providing information on Canada's education systems and quality assurance to assist in the recognition of Canadian qualifications, in collaboration with provincial and territorial ministries of education;
• Contributing to policy dialogue and analysis on academic credential assessment issue management in Canada, including building awareness of the impact of developments in related areas such as immigration and labour market policies, and of the need to facilitate mobility by reducing barriers to students and workers moving to, across, or outside Canada;
• Developingtools and resources to support the community of academic credential assessors to improve consistency of and capacity for academic credential assessment in Canada;
• Managing labour-mobility projects, focusing on academic credential assessment and the teaching profession.

A program of the Council of Ministers of Education, Canada