Guides

Guides to accreditation in the UK and Malta

Direct answers to the questions we are asked most, written from the published criteria of the bodies themselves rather than from secondary summaries.

These three questions come up in almost every first conversation, and the answers are more specific than the general guidance suggests. Each guide opens with a short answer you can act on, sets out the detail underneath, and names the primary source so you can check it yourself. Where a rule changed recently, the date is stated, because a lot of published guidance has not caught up.

Do you need a Maltese company for MFHEA accreditation?

In most cases yes. MFHEA requires a body corporate registered in Malta and a legal representative based there. The two exceptions, and what the entity actually involves.

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How a UK provider gets EU recognition after Brexit

What actually changed at Brexit, why Malta is the practical route, what an EQF-referenced level delivers, and the cases where this route is the wrong answer.

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Is an England-regulated qualification recognised across the UK?

Not automatically. Four regulators, three frameworks, what travels between them, and what Scotland changed on 2 December 2025.

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