Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Spanish term or phrase:
carece de validez académica
English translation:
This diploma is not academically valid
Spanish term
Spain
Legal and financial translations
Native in: Spanish (Variant: Standard-Spain) 
, Galician
Works in: German to Spanish, English to Spanish, Portuguese to Spanish, and 5 more.
carece de validez académica
"Este diploma carece de validez académica y no sustituye al título oficial"
Proposed translations
Ecuador
Language and engineering expert
Native in: Spanish , English
Works in: English to Spanish, Portuguese to English, Spanish to English, and 7 more.
This dioloma is not academically valid
As translators, we cannot question why this is stated. We just have to translate the sentence.
United States
ATA Certified English-Spanish Translator
Native in: Spanish (Variant: Latin American) 
Works in: English to Spanish, Spanish to English
lacks academic recognition
Ejemplos:
If a school or program lacks USDE-recognized accreditation, you need to find out why.
http://www.thebestschools.org/degrees/accreditation-colleges...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unrecognized_higher_edu...
Some other listed entities are religious accreditation bodies, whose accreditation may have doctrinal significance but lacks recognized academic value.
Some, however, still hold that genealogy is not a branch of learning but merely an intellectual pastime because it lacks academic recognition and degrees based
https://books.google.com.ar/books?id=pOH-578rxqwC&pg=PA51&lp...
Argentina
Efficiency, accuracy and quality
Native in: Spanish (Variants: Latin American, Standard-Spain, Argentine, US)
Works in: English to Spanish, Spanish to English, Spanish
lacks academic validity
Courses CUIMPB-Center Ernest Lluch have academic validity as free elective credits in most Catalan universities
worked for int. orgs (IMF, OAS, IDB)
Native in: English
Works in: Spanish to English, German to English
this diploma/certificate is not valid/invalid and does not replace the official degree certificate
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is not academically valid
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