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Overseas Qualifications Assessment

Introduction
What documents do you need for a written assessment of your qualifications?
How are assessments made?
How educational assessments can help me?
Contacting Overseas Qualifications Assessment
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OQA Brochure

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Overseas Qualifications Assessment Brochure 2005 (Updated Oct 4, 2005)

Overseas Qualifications Assessment advises migrants, refugees and other permanent residents with overseas qualifications on the procedures to follow to gain recognition and utilise their overseas qualifications, skills and experience. Overseas Qualifications Assessment provides for Tasmanian residents with overseas qualifications and skills the following services:

academic and technical (educational) assessment of overseas qualifications, using the Australia Education International - National Office of Overseas Skills Recognition (AEI-NOOSR), Country Education Profiles;
information and professional recognition of overseas qualifications, including referrals to relevant professional bodies, membership requirements.

What documents do you need for a written assessment of your qualifications?

The original and the English translation** of the following documents:

qualification/award.
transcript of academic record
evidence of your Australian residence status, eg passport and visa
evidence of change of name, e.g. marriage certificate (where appropriate)

**You may be eligible for a free Department of Immigration translation service (TIS). Please visit http://www.immi.gov.au/living-in-australia/help-with-english/learn-english/client/translation_help.htm for further information.
** If you are not eligible for a free TIS translation, other translations must be by a National Accreditation Authority for Translators and Interpreters (NAATI) Level 3 translator. Go to the NAATI Online Directory at http://mail.naati.com.au/naati/pdsearch/pdsearch.aspx to find a translator.
** Sometimes we are able to accept translations prepared overseas. Please contact us to discuss the translation of your documents.

Your documents may be original or certified copies.

How are assessments made?

Against the appropriate Country Education Profile published by the Australia Education International - National Office of Overseas Skills Recognition. AEI-NOOSR carries out extensive research into overseas education systems and qualifications in order to establish their comparability with Australian awards and develop assessment guidelines. Experts in academic, professional, technical and business fields are consulted.
Your qualification is checked against the name of the qualification and the institute which issued it.
If there is a guideline which covers your qualification an educational assessment advice statement is prepared.
If all documents are available at initial assessment, an assessment advice can usually be issued within five weeks.

IMPORTANT NOTE These assessments are educational assessments and not occupational assessments. You may need to complete other requirements to be able to work in your occupation. There are professional and occupational registration authorities which determine these requirements. One of the functions of Overseas Qualifications Assessment is to refer you to these organisations.

How educational assessments can help me?

with entry to post-secondary education
explain your educational level to an employer for general employment purposes
gain membership of a professional association
obtain a licence for regulatory purposes

Who do I contact for further information?

Diana Quilliam
or
Jim Fitzgerald

Overseas Qualifications Assessment
Tasmanian Qualifications Authority
Level 5, Kirksway House
Kirksway Place
Battery Point 7004

Postal address:
PO Box 147
Sandy Bay 7006

Telephone: 6233 7823
Fax: 6224 0175
Email:diana.quilliam@tqa.tas.gov.au
or
Email:jim.fitzgerald@tqa.tas.gov.au

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