NZCSE was developed with the idea that it could be offered to Steiner High Schools overseas as well as in New Zealand.

There are hundreds of Steiner Schools around the world who could use this qualification and this would improve the international flavour of the learning outcomes.

As a result of this international interest there are now eighteen schools in Australia, the United Kingdom, Germany, Austria and Switzerland running NZCSE.

The Lisbon Recognition Convention

The Lisbon Recognition Convention aims to ensure that holders of a qualification from a signatory country can have that qualification recognised in another.  https://www.coe.int/en/web/conventions/full-list/-/conventions/rms/090000168007f2c7

The Convention was signed by most countries in Europe as well as New Zealand. It is now law in these countries. This agreement has greatly facilitated our ability to offer the NZCSE programme overseas.

Each signatory country must recognise qualifications for access to higher education as similar to the corresponding qualifications in its own system unless it can show that there are substantial differences between its own qualifications and the qualifications for which recognition is sought. [https://www.enic-naric.net/the-lisbon-recognition-convention.aspx ]

The explanatory report of the LRC explicitly states that the Convention also applies to qualifications belonging to the education system of a Party but earned at a school or other institution located outside of the territory of that Party. [ https://rm.coe.int/CoERMPublicCommonSearchServices/DisplayDCTMContent?documentId=09000016800ccde6 ] That means, for example, that achievement of the NZCSE in the UK is the same as its achievement in New Zealand. This in turn means that a UK student can use the NZCSE to achieve entry into a UK university.