As of 13 August 2026, AI can check whether a qualification is recognised in the UK.

What to actually do

1. Hand it to a person

   The route this page recommends

   A person who owns the outcome does this end to end, worth it when the failure is dear.

2. Use a tool built for this

   Second choice

3. Do it yourself

   The distant third

   A chat interface, chat-fluent skill, and roughly 30 minutes until you can act on the result.

   How to actually do it

   1. Gather the certificate, transcript and any document explaining the qualification's level, awarding body, institution and date, and remove unnecessary personal numbers before sharing them.
   2. Copy the exact wording of the UK job, course or professional-registration requirement, including any named qualification, regulator or required level.
   3. Open GOV.UK, the awarding body's website and the relevant UK professional regulator's website, then search for the qualification name and the organisation's recognition or entry requirements.
   4. Paste the qualification details and the requirement into the prompt, and ask the chatbot to use current official sources and separate recognition, comparability and acceptance.
   5. Open every cited official page and compare its wording with the chatbot's claims, checking that the page actually names your qualification, awarding body, level or intended profession.
   6. Send the chatbot's unanswered questions, together with the relevant certificate details, to the employer, university admissions team or professional regulator and ask for written confirmation.
   7. Keep the written reply with your application documents and use that reply, rather than the chatbot's summary, as the basis for applying.

   Prompt

   Check whether this qualification is recognised in the UK for the purpose I describe below. Use current official UK sources where available, including the awarding body, the relevant professional regulator, GOV.UK and UK ENIC where relevant. Do not treat these as interchangeable: explain separately whether the qualification is genuine, recognised by its awarding body or regulator, comparable to a UK qualification, accepted for this specific job or course, or sufficient for a regulated profession. Cite the exact page title and URL for every important claim. State what you cannot establish from public information, identify any missing documents or details, and give me a short list of questions to send to the employer, university or regulator. Do not give a definitive answer where only that organisation can decide. Qualification: [exact qualification title]. Awarding body: [name]. Country and institution: [country and institution]. Level, grade and date awarded: [details]. Subject: [subject]. Intended job, course or profession in the UK: [details]. Requirement or wording I need to assess: [paste it].

   Open it prefilled in ChatGPT or Claude, or copy it into Gemini, which takes no prefill link.