Conor McAuley Aug 30, 2022:

EN text Not dissimilar to Daryo's "requirements satisfied" also.

Conor McAuley Aug 30, 2022:

For info: On the International Baccalaureate diploma:

FR: "a rempli avec succès les conditions pour l'obtention du DIPLOME [...]" – not dissimilar to your "exigences satisfaites".

EN: "has successfully completed the requirements for the award of the DIPLOMA [...]"

Conor McAuley Aug 24, 2022:

(Apologies for all the edits)

One approach, often used in legal translation, perhaps surprisingly, is just to kind of ignore the French heading of a clause or sub-clause, and to describe what the clause is about.

And legal being legal, sometimes there's a clause about headings, stating (in not so many words), that headings do not in any way have an effect on what follows them.

And if it's good enough for legal...

Conor McAuley Aug 24, 2022:

Melanie is right:

"Official bilingualism in Canada - Wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Official_bilingualism_i...
Quebec — Quebec has declared itself officially unilingual (French only)."

You'd think arrangements would be reciprocal, and I support Quebec (and France for that matter!!!!) preserving its linguistic identity, but that's not the case, for whatever reason.

Séverine Watson (asker) Aug 23, 2022:

Following my call with the UdeM... ...it would appear that this "attestation" can be used in a range of circumstances according to the student's needs, hence its name.

The lady I spoke with was unaware of an official translation of this term, although it really didn't seem to be her remit.

However, she did say that students can get hold of an English version of most official documents IF they so request. (And if they don't, the default version is in French). As it stood, she couldn't give me any more information.

Given that this "attestation particulière" is the name of a specific set of documents and is merely the subject line of this letter, I will stick closer to the source and avoid any notion of successful completion of studies here.

Thanks for all your input. I'll probably go with either 'specific attestation' or 'ad hoc attestation'.

Steve Robbie Aug 23, 2022:

I don't see why... ... you don't translate it literally (e.g. Special Attestation - Satisfaction of Requirements) and let the body of the text explain what it's about. That's what the original seems to do.

Presumably the student has 'satisfied the requirements' for the award of the degree of whatever. I have a similarly worded document from many years ago that was issued to me after I sat my exams but before I had formally graduated.

Séverine Watson (asker) Aug 22, 2022:

What do you think of... ...Declaration of student status?
Seems to be used a lot in UK university circles and would fit better with the other potential meanings in this attestation.
In the meantime, I'll also try to check with UdeM. Must admit I was just as surprised to see no bilingual version for its registrar's office.

Melanie Kathan Aug 22, 2022:

@Conor Just as a note, you'd think everything in Quebec should be bilingual, but it's really not. On half of the government websites, when you click on the little "EN" in the corner you are redirected to only the most basic of homepages, where most of the resources available in French are impossible to find.
I looked all over the University of Montreal website in English; there is no equivalent of the French page Emmanuella posted (which I had also found earlier).

Conor McAuley Aug 22, 2022:

Or... Maybe the answer is in your question:

"Recommendation that the faculty board award a degree", that would be a concise and idiomatic solution, as a heading to a document.

Séverine Watson (asker) Aug 22, 2022:

@Phil Good question, there's absolutely nothing wrong with it! And I may well go with that unless anyone else has another idea.

Melanie Kathan Aug 22, 2022:

Special certification If you decide to break the translation into two parts, I'd start with this, as it seems to be pretty common on university registrar websites.
https://gallaudet.edu/registrar/registrar-forms-and-procedur...
https://our.upd.edu.ph/faqtor.php
https://registrar.missouri.edu/transcripts-certifications/ce...

I'm still working on the second part.

philgoddard Aug 22, 2022:

What's wrong with special attestation?

Emmanuella Aug 22, 2022:

https://registraire.umontreal.ca/documents-officiels/command...

Samuël Buysschaert Aug 22, 2022:

Fwiw Maybe "proof (document) request" or sthg like that, from the link provided by Writeaway "Attestation d'études" seems to cover the proof of enrolment and studies, this document might allow to request proof of name, age, ...
so could be "particular proof request", don't know if it is sthg that makes sense for EN natives, just an idea.