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1. The Contracting States declare their intention:
(a) To promote joint use of available educational resources by placing their training institutions at the service of the integral development of all the peoples in the region, for which purpose they shall take measures aimed at: i) harmonizing in so far as possible conditions for admission to the higher education institutions in each State,
ii) adopting similar terminology and similar criteria for evaluation, so as to make it easier to apply the system of comparability of studies,
iii) adopting, with regard to admission to subsequent stages of study, a dynamic conception taking into account the knowledge vouched for by diplomas or personal experience and achievements, subject to the provisions of article 1, subparagraph (c),
iv) adopting, in evaluating partial studies, broad criteria based on the level of education reached rather than the content of the curricula followed, having due regard to the interdisciplinary nature of higher education,
v) granting immediate recognition of studies, diplomas, degrees and certificates for academic purposes and for purposes of the practice of a profession,
vi) promoting the exchange of information and documentation in the fields of education, science and technology, so as to serve the purposes of this Convention.
i) harmonizing in so far as possible conditions for admission to the higher education institutions in each State,
ii) adopting similar terminology and similar criteria for evaluation, so as to make it easier to apply the system of comparability of studies,
iii) adopting, with regard to admission to subsequent stages of study, a dynamic conception taking into account the knowledge vouched for by diplomas or personal experience and achievements, subject to the provisions of article 1, subparagraph (c),
iv) adopting, in evaluating partial studies, broad criteria based on the level of education reached rather than the content of the curricula followed, having due regard to the interdisciplinary nature of higher education,
v) granting immediate recognition of studies, diplomas, degrees and certificates for academic purposes and for purposes of the practice of a profession,
vi) promoting the exchange of information and documentation in the fields of education, science and technology, so as to serve the purposes of this Convention.
(b) to strive at regional level for the continuous improvement of the curricula which, together with appropriate planning and organization, will contribute to the optimum use of the training resources of the region;
(c) to promote inter-regional co-operation with respect to the recognition of studies and degrees;
(d) to set up the national and regional bodies needed to facilitate the most rapid and effective application of this Convention.
2. The Contracting States undertake to adopt all the national and international measures that may be necessary to ensure the gradual achievement of the objectives set out in this Article, principally through bilateral, sub-regional or regional agreements, as well as through agreements between institutions of higher education, and such other means as may be conducive to co-operation with the competent organizations and institutions, both national and international.