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What the regulator actually decides
Which authority assesses your qualification, what it can and cannot rule on, and what its published wording means in practice.
Independent register · Not an accreditation body
Your degree is only worth what the register says it is.
We track how foreign qualifications are actually treated — for employment, professional registration, skilled migration and further study — and, when they fall short, which named course closes the gap.
Every fact on this site carries its source, the version or date of that source, and the date we last checked it. Rules in this field change every few months; anything without those three things is not finished.
Why this exists
- Universities cannot tell you a branch-campus degree is different. We can.
- A provider selling a top-up degree will not tell you it does not lead to registration. We will.
- Regulators publish the rule and stop. We publish the next sentence.
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Where the shortfall is
The gap between what you hold and what the register requires — stated as the regulator states it, not as an agency paraphrases it.
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The course that actually closes it
Named programmes with fees, mode, intake year and the column nobody publishes: whether it leads to registration at all.
Where we cover
Depth over breadth. We only publish a jurisdiction once we can cite the regulator directly.
| Jurisdiction | What we track | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Australia & New Zealand | Skills assessment authorities, accredited course registers, country → AQF mapping | in build |
| United Kingdom & Ireland | UK ENIC / NARIC Ireland, professional-body routes, conversion and shortfall courses | in build |
| Canada | ECA bodies, qualification → equivalency outcomes, bridging and top-up routes | in build |
| United States | Bridge-program directory; nursing and pharmacy bridging by state | in build |
| Transnational awards | Branch campus, franchised, validated, twinning, joint awards — recognition by purpose | in build |