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International Education

Our role

Australia has a long established system of qualifications recognition. Australia is party to the UNESCO Lisbon Recognition Convention and Asia Pacific Recognition Convention (or Tokyo Convention). Under these conventions, we are the National Information Centre for qualifications recognition in Australia. In this capacity we develop qualifications recognition policy and provide information and advice about:

the Australian education system, to promote the recognition of Australian qualifications in other countries; and
overseas education systems to facilitate the recognition of overseas qualifications in Australia.

We fulfil our role by engaging domestically and internationally, and delivering a range of information services and programmes including:

representing Australia in UNESCO regional recognition fora including the ENIC-NARIC and APNNIC networks
supporting Australian Government to overseas government engagement in multilateral and bilateral fora
policy advice and information on how overseas qualifications compare with qualifications on the Australian Qualifications Framework through:

the Country Education Profiles publication

professional development

qualification assessments.

policy advice and information on the Australian education system through the Australia Country Education Profile publication
policy support to professional assessing authorities under the general skilled migration programme
policy support to state and territory governments
policy support for the Australian Qualifications Framework.

Note that Australia's National Information Centre in the Department of Education, Skills and Employment has previously been known by various names prior to 2017 including, ‘AEI-NOOSR’, ‘NOOSR’ and the ‘National Office of Overseas Skills Recognition’ which we no longer use as our focus and some of our functions have changed.

For more information about how qualifications recognition works is Australia, see Who can assess my qualification?

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Our role