Guides
Each guide states the rule, cites the body that published it, and says when we last checked.
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UK & Ireland
UK ENIC and NARIC Ireland are not the same service — and neither one decides whether you can practise
One is a paid, personalised statement from a company managed for the UK government. The other is a free, generic download. Both are routinely mistaken for a licence to work, and neither is one.
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Australia & NZ
ACS does not deduct years from your experience. It sets a date, and your qualification decides where the date lands
The published table of how much relevant experience each qualification level requires, plus the Skill Level Requirement Met Date rule and ACS's own two worked examples — including the case where experience predates the degree.
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Australia & NZ
ACS RPL does not bridge a non-ICT degree. It ignores the degree entirely
The question 'which non-ICT degrees can be bridged by experience' has no answer at ACS, because the RPL pathway states it does not assess tertiary qualifications at all. Here is what it asks for instead.
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Australia & NZ
What ACS counts as an ICT major is a percentage, and the percentage changes with the qualification type
ACS publishes the actual thresholds — 33% for a standard three-year bachelor, one full academic year for a diploma, 50% for a two-year postgraduate award — plus a separate 65% test that has nothing to do with the major.
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Australia & NZ
Non-ICT bachelor plus an ICT master's: ACS assesses the master's on its own thresholds, and asks for the bachelor anyway
The published postgraduate rules — 50% ICT for a two-year award, 67% for an Australian postgraduate degree of only twelve subjects, plus three structural minimums — and what the pair of qualifications does to the experience requirement.
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Australia & NZ
A three-year Indian BCA or B.Sc (IT) under ACS: the three-year length is not the problem people think it is
ACS's published major test is written for a standard three-year bachelor. What ACS does not publish is a country table — the AQF comparability reference it names in its own glossary is a paid subscription that its publisher says is not for individuals.
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UK & Ireland
The ARB Prescribed Examination is still running — but the Part 1 exam ends this October, and the application window has already closed
What ARB has actually published about the Prescribed Examination in 2026: which part is being discontinued, when the last sittings are, what is still only a consultation, and where ARB's own pages contradict each other.
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UK & Ireland
ARB's UK Adaptation Assessment: who is actually eligible, who is not, and why it is not an alternative to Part 3
The UKAA is open only to architects arriving through a registration-level mutual recognition agreement, and eligibility is decided by the partner regulator rather than by ARB. It is also being withdrawn after October 2026.
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UK & Ireland
Overseas architecture degree, no ARB Part 1: the three routes, and what each one actually demands
ARB publishes the rules and stops. This sets out the three published routes onto the UK Architects Register for someone qualified outside the UK, what evidence each needs, and the requirement none of them removes.
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UK & Ireland
ARB says an interior architecture degree is 'unlikely' to qualify you for its exam — here is the test it actually applies, and what does work
The escape clause on ARB's page points to transitional arrangements that only cover courses started before October 2013. This sets out the real eligibility test from ARB's Procedures, and the routes that remain open to interior architecture, interior design and architectural technology graduates.
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UK & Ireland
ARB Prescribed Examination or a UK Part 1 degree: the two routes costed side by side, from the fee pages themselves
A route-cost comparison only — no exam content. What each path charges, how long each takes, what entry each demands, and the item both paths still require that most comparisons leave out.
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UK & Ireland
India, Nigeria and Pakistan lawyers: the SRA's exemption list covers SQE2 only — SQE1 is still required
The SRA's own jurisdiction data shows an SQE2 exemption route for Indian advocates, Nigerian barristers and solicitors, and advocates in six Pakistani jurisdictions. It shows no SQE1 exemption for any of them, and the SRA says only one SQE1 exemption has been granted since 2021.
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Transnational awards
Is a branch campus degree the same as the main campus degree? What is identical, and what was never the same thing
The award can be genuinely identical and still be treated differently, because the bodies that judge it read facts the certificate does not carry. This separates the three questions people ask at once.
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Transnational awards
Branch campus vs main campus, line by line: entry, staff, assessment, testamur, transcript, register
A checkable item-by-item comparison, with the published rule behind each item — including what the standards require a certificate to state, and the one item that is genuinely unresolved.
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Canada & US
Your ECA says "Bachelor's degree (three years)" — what IRCC's own table attaches to that phrase, and what it doesn't
IRCC publishes a 152-row table mapping every possible ECA result to a level of education and a point value. A three-year bachelor's and a four-year bachelor's are separate rows that map to the same level of education, for the same points. Here is what that does, and the four decisions it still does not touch.
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Canada & US
Why two designated ECA agencies can report the same credential differently — the answer is in their own published rules
Canada designates five general organisations plus three professional bodies to assess foreign credentials, and the framework they all follow says in writing that it is 'not prescriptive'. Different results are a documented feature of the system, not a rumour.
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Transnational awards
Does studying at a branch campus count as "studying overseas"? There is no single definition, and the ones that exist do not agree
"Studying overseas" is not a general term with one meaning. Each rule that uses it defines it for itself, and the published definitions test different things — the awarding body, the campus, or where your body was.
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Transnational awards
One award, four rulebooks: why an employer, a regulator, a migration points test and an admissions office do not reach the same answer
The same transnational award is judged four separate times by four bodies asking four different questions. This page sets out what each one actually reads, in its own published words.
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Canada & US
One-year versus two-year credentials in the Express Entry education rules, as IRCC writes them
Two one-year credentials never reach the 'two or more' row — every combination entry in IRCC's own 152-row table begins with a credential of three years or more. And the Canadian bonus splits at one-or-two years versus three, with a separate rule for a one-year master's.
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Canada & US
A degree awarded in one country and taught in another: how Canadian ECA rules actually handle it
No designated agency publishes a general transnational-education policy. What they publish instead are three separate tests — who awarded it, who recognises the awarding body, and who recognises the teaching institution and the programme — and those three can point at different countries.
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