Rectors and deans
Can your institution meet Article 20 as written? Which of the nine minimum requirements would be hardest, and why?
Answer this →CHEQF · Consultation
Objections are more useful than praise. Send the objection.
Consultation·Draft 0.9 · from 20 September 2026
Read the drafts.Then tell us what is wrong with them.
Two drafts are open: CHEQF 0.9 for higher education, which will bind every institution that joins it with re-evaluation at least once every five years, and the Standards for Sunday Schools and Specialized Courses 1.0 for everything that does not lead to a degree. Standards that strict should be argued with before they are approved, not after. The texts on this site are the texts under consultation.
Whom we ask
Six readers, six different questions. Pick yours.
01 Whom we are asking
Six kinds of reader.Each sees a different flaw.
Faculty and scholars
Are the level descriptors in Article 9 and the volumes in Appendix A right for your discipline? Where does a theological programme not fit a six-domain model?
Answer this →Church authorities
Is the separation of academic qualification from ordination, mandate and office (Articles 1.3 and 18) drawn where your tradition draws it?
Answer this →Students and graduates
Would you understand, from the status statement in Article 17, what your diploma is and is not? What would you want disclosed before enrolment?
Answer this →Credential evaluators and lawyers
Does the legal caution in Appendix E cover the jurisdictions you know? Which degree titles would be restricted where you work?
Answer this →Parish priests, catechists and parents
Are the Sunday School levels of section 5 and the course classes of section 13 in the Schools Standard the way your parish already works? What would section 11 on safeguarding change for you?
Answer this →How
Quote the article number. A comment on “the credits section” is a comment on nothing.
02 How to comment
Article, problem, proposal.In that order.
- Name the document and the article or section, for example “CHEQF, Article 11, fourth bullet” or “Schools Standard, section 9”. Every article of CHEQF and every section of the Schools Standard has its own anchor you can copy.
- State the problem: unclear, unworkable, contradicts another article, contradicts the law of a country you know, or contradicts your tradition.
- Propose wording if you can. A proposed sentence is worth ten paragraphs of concern.
- Say who you are and in what capacity you read the draft. Comments are not published; they are read.
Comments are received at office@patria.uno. Institutions that intend to seek a status may add an expression of interest in the same letter.
Languages: English is the official language of degree terminology; comments in other languages are welcome and will be read.
What happens next
No dates on this page. Every date here would be a promise the Standard does not make.
03 After the consultation
The order is fixed by the Standard.The dates are not.
- Step 01Revision
Comments are read and the draft is revised. A new version number replaces 0.9.
- Step 02Approval
The Standard enters into force on the date of its approval by the competent Church authority. The approval block at the end of the text is filled in.
- Step 03Degree Programme Specifications
Until separate Degree Programme Specifications are approved, no institution may recruit students in the name of CHEQF.
- Step 04Legal review
Before official launch the system undergoes a separate legal review in the selected jurisdiction, as Appendix E requires.
- Step 05First authorisations
Institutions are reviewed and granted a status. The public registry receives its first entries.
- Step 06Mapping of earlier qualifications
Qualifications awarded before CHEQF may be incorporated only after a formal mapping procedure.