British Expats - Positives & Negatives

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Originally Posted by brit_in_fizroy

This one keeps coming up on these forums. The Canadian Nursing council is quite within their rights to set certain standards. To make someone re-certify in Canada does not reflect on the training of the country of origin, it just verifies that the individual who calls themselves a nurse is actually up to the standards required to practice in Canada. My wife had to re-qualify as an RPN, a couple of weeks revision on the appropriate text books and learning new drug names was all that was needed.

No-one objects to some form of bridging study where the training is substantially equivalent. But forcing a nurse from the UK/Australia/NZ etc to re-qualify from scratch (if this is what's being discussed) is simply protectionist, or reflects an inability to distinguish between different foreign countries (almost as bad).

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This applies to many trades. Canada has the right to set certain requirements on it's professional people - you know this before you come here. If Australia has different requirements then that is their prerogative.

Canada has the right to do whatever it pleases. But then it ought not to be complaining about skill shortages alongside 'skilled' immigrants doing unskilled work, or about the fact that many potentially desirable skilled migrants choose to go to Australia instead.

That's not to say that skilled migrants to Australia have a completely smooth ride through the licensing system, but the overseas skill recognition process in Australia seems to be much more advanced than Canada. It's also linked into the skilled migration system which means that if you have no chance of getting your skills recognised, it's very hard to migrate (on skill grounds) in the first place.

Jeremy