Please could anyone tell me of a web site that will help me to see if hubby,s uk qualifictaions are equilalent in anyway to Australian qualificiations. Though hubby,s profession is on the wanted list we don,t know if his qualifications are acceptable over there.

Cheers BooBoo

I don't know of a specific site, but NOOSR, TRA, and IEAust were fairly useful for me. I think most professional institutes/societies in Australia have a method of comparing overseas quals.
Try searches on Google.com with relevant words for your job. I think I started with 'Engineer' 'Institute' and 'Australia'.
Probably not very useful if hubby isn't an engineer !!

hi

if u do a search on this site for skills assessment or words to that effect you should find previous threads on the subject and links to websites - also on immigration website has links.

hope it works out

regards

If it is like NZ, you will find that there is a national organisation for validation of qualifications (it is the NZ Quals Authority in NZ, so perhaps AQA in Oz?) and they charge you a fair few quid for a piece of paper telling you that your UK certs are as good (or often not, unfortunately) as theirs. This is not like the UK where individual HE institutions, employers, etc, tend to make up their own mind about your certs, unless they are from somewhere they have never heard of, and acquaintances have never needed to get their quals okayed for ready money in UK.

It makes me smile that, for example, a top degree from world-famous institutions like Oxford or Cambridge Unis or, say, the IEE in UK or IEEE in US are considered inferior to NZ equivalents - from, for example, University of Otago (ever heard of it?) whereas I know that NZ degrees, etc, are taken at face value in UK.

I can hardly imagine some employer or Higher Ed institution in Uk saying to an applicant: "This degree from, where was it now, oh yes, 'Harvard', well that's not really equivalent to our honours degrees here and so we will only give you the equivalent of our non-honours degree."

I wonder if this is the same in Oz?

Slippers

Thankyou everyone for your help. Will get onto this right now


Cheers
BooBoo

Another approach would be to join the Australian professional body that governs your profession. If there is such a body.

Hi peeps

thanks alot for the info...

I found a great site called www.ieaust.org.au

I even got a list of good jobs for hubby in the melbourne area...

Should stop the old boy fretting

BooBoo:scared: