ASSESSMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY QUALIFICATIONS UNIVERSITY ENTRY OR EMPLOYMENT

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1 APPLICATION FORM ASSESSMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY QUALIFICATIONS UNIVERSITY ENTRY OR EMPLOYMENT This form is for the assessment of psyhology qualifiations for the purpose of employment or applying for entry into an Australian Psyhology Areditation Counil aredited university ourse. This form is NOT for appliations for registration as a psyhologist in Australia. Please read the aompanying Guidelines and Proedures before ompleting this form. Make sure you provide ALL douments required, attah payment as instruted, and sign the Delaration setion of this form. This form is valid for the period 1 June May If applying after this time new fees may apply, and you must obtain an updated form from the APS website at psyhology.org.au PERSONAL DETAILS Dr Mr Ms Other Family name: Former name (if appliable): Given names: Date of birth: / / DD MM YY If your appliation is in a different name to that on your aademi douments, please attah a ertified opy of your hange of name ertifiate (e.g. marriage ertifiate, deed poll extrat et). Please provide a seure postal address for you or your agent. The assessment outome Statement of Psyhology Qualifiations will be posted to this address. Suburb: State: Postode: Country: Telephone*: ( ) Fax*: ( ) *inlude ountry and area odes, where relevant. We will ontat you by if we have any queries about your appliation. BASIS FOR APPLICATION Please tik the relevant box(es) Employment purposes Entry to an Australian aredited university ourse (Please indiate whih ourses and universities below) If you require an assessment for migration purposes, please omplete the migration appliation form. You do not need to omplete two forms. 1 OF 14

2 ACADEMIC RECORD As evidene of your aademi qualifiations, please attah ertified opies of aademi transripts and degree ertifiates for all your ompleted undergraduate and postgraduate qualifiations in psyhology. Only ompleted qualifiations may be onsidered. 1. HIGHEST QUALIFICATION IN PSYCHOLOGY COMPLETED PART A a) What is the name of the highest qualifiation in psyhology that you have ompleted? In English In the original language (if appliable): b) Name of institution/university? In English: In the original language (if appliable): ) City/town and ountry in whih institution/university is loated? d) What was the standard entry requirement for the ourse? (for example, seondary studies et) e) Usual length of full-time ourse. In years: OR In semesters: f) What was the length of time it took you to omplete the ourse? In years: OR In months: g) Did you study full-time or part-time? (please tik relevant box) Full-time Part-time h) When did you omplete the ourse? (please write month and year) i) Did you omplete a written major researh projet/thesis/dissertation as part of the ourse? Yes No If you answered Yes, what was the approximate length (that is, number of words) of your thesis? How is the researh projet/thesis/dissertation represented on the aademi transript? What was the title of the thesis in English? Please provide ertified opies (eah page must be ertified) of the following evidene from your thesis: title page; abstrat/introdutory overview; and table of ontents. (Do not send your entire thesis.) Please list the name(s), profession and institutional affiliation(s) of the supervisors and examiners of your thesis: j) Was ompulsory pratial experiene/supervised internship a requirement of the ourse? Yes No If you answered Yes, please omplete ALL items in PART B 2 OF 14

3 1. HIGHEST QUALIFICATION IN PSYCHOLOGY COMPLETED PART B If you ompleted more than one ompulsory plaement for this qualifiation, please attah additional pages addressing ALL items below for eah ompulsory plaement you ompleted: a) How is the ompulsory pratial experiene or supervised internship represented on the aademi reord? b) What was the name of the pratie or institution where the ompulsory pratie took plae? ) What was your role and title at the ompulsory pratial experiene? d) Who supervised the ompulsory pratial experiene? Please inlude their name(s), profession(s) and aademi redentials: e) What were the start and end dates of this ompulsory pratial experiene? START DATE: / / END DATE: / / DD MM YY DD MM YY f) How many hours per week did you attend this ompulsory pratial experiene? g) What was the total number of hours that you attended this ompulsory pratial experiene? h) How many lients did you work with? i) How many hours of fae-to-fae supervision did you reeive? j) Who assessed the ompulsory pratial experiene? k) How was the ompulsory pratial experiene assessed or graded? l) Please desribe the nature of the work that you performed inluding the various tasks you undertook for this ompulsory pratial experiene 3 OF 14

4 2. SECOND HIGHEST QUALIFICATION IN PSYCHOLOGY COMPLETED PART A (if appliable) a) What is the name of the highest qualifiation in psyhology that you have ompleted? In English In the original language (if appliable): b) Name of institution/university? In English: In the original language (if appliable): ) City/town and ountry in whih institution/university is loated? d) What was the standard entry requirement for the ourse? (for example, seondary studies et) e) Usual length of full-time ourse. In years: OR In semesters: f) What was the length of time it took you to omplete the ourse? In years: OR In months: g) Did you study full-time or part-time? (please tik relevant box) Full-time Part-time h) When did you omplete the ourse? (please write month and year) i) Did you omplete a written major researh projet/thesis/dissertation as part of the ourse? Yes No If you answered Yes, what was the approximate length (that is, number of words) of your thesis? How is the researh projet/thesis/dissertation represented on the aademi transript? What was the title of the thesis in English? Please provide ertified opies (eah page must be ertified) of the following evidene from your thesis: title page; abstrat/introdutory overview; and table of ontents. (Do not send your entire thesis.) Please list the name(s), profession and institutional affiliation(s) of the supervisors and examiners of your thesis: j) Was ompulsory pratial experiene/supervised internship a requirement of the ourse? Yes No If you answered Yes, please omplete ALL items in PART B 4 OF 14

5 2. SECOND HIGHEST QUALIFICATION IN PSYCHOLOGY COMPLETED PART B If you ompleted more than one ompulsory plaement for this qualifiation, please attah additional pages addressing ALL items below for eah ompulsory plaement you ompleted: a) How is the ompulsory pratial experiene or supervised internship represented on the aademi reord? b) What was the name of the pratie or institution where the ompulsory pratie took plae? ) What was your role and title at the ompulsory pratial experiene? d) Who supervised the ompulsory pratial experiene? Please inlude their name(s), profession(s) and aademi redentials: e) What were the start and end dates of this ompulsory pratial experiene? START DATE: / / END DATE: / / DD MM YY DD MM YY f) How many hours per week did you attend this ompulsory pratial experiene? g) What was the total number of hours that you attended this ompulsory pratial experiene? h) How many lients did you work with? i) How many hours of fae-to-fae supervision did you reeive? j) Who assessed the ompulsory pratial experiene? k) How was the ompulsory pratial experiene assessed or graded? l) Please desribe the nature of the work that you performed inluding the various tasks you undertook for this ompulsory pratial experiene 5 OF 14

6 3. THIRD HIGHEST QUALIFICATION IN PSYCHOLOGY COMPLETED PART A (if appliable) a) What is the name of the highest qualifiation in psyhology that you have ompleted? In English In the original language (if appliable): b) Name of institution/university? In English: In the original language (if appliable): ) City/town and ountry in whih institution/university is loated? d) What was the standard entry requirement for the ourse? (for example, seondary studies et) e) Usual length of full-time ourse. In years: OR In semesters: f) What was the length of time it took you to omplete the ourse? In years: OR In months: g) Did you study full-time or part-time? (please tik relevant box) Full-time Part-time h) When did you omplete the ourse? (please write month and year) i) Did you omplete a written major researh projet/thesis/dissertation as part of the ourse? Yes No If you answered Yes, what was the approximate length (that is, number of words) of your thesis? How is the researh projet/thesis/dissertation represented on the aademi transript? What was the title of the thesis in English? Please provide ertified opies (eah page must be ertified) of the following evidene from your thesis: title page; abstrat/introdutory overview; and table of ontents. (Do not send your entire thesis.) Please list the name(s), profession and institutional affiliation(s) of the supervisors and examiners of your thesis: j) Was ompulsory pratial experiene/supervised internship a requirement of the ourse? Yes No If you answered Yes, please omplete ALL items in PART B 6 OF 14

7 3. THIRD HIGHEST QUALIFICATION IN PSYCHOLOGY COMPLETED PART B If you ompleted more than one ompulsory plaement for this qualifiation, please attah additional pages addressing ALL items below for eah ompulsory plaement you ompleted: a) How is the ompulsory pratial experiene or supervised internship represented on the aademi reord? b) What was the name of the pratie or institution where the ompulsory pratie took plae? ) What was your role and title at the ompulsory pratial experiene? d) Who supervised the ompulsory pratial experiene? Please inlude their name(s), profession(s) and aademi redentials: e) What were the start and DD end dates of MM this ompulsory YY pratial experiene? DD MM YY START DATE: / / END DATE: / / f) How many hours per week did you attend this ompulsory pratial experiene? g) What was the total number of hours that you attended this ompulsory pratial experiene? h) How many lients did you work with? i) How many hours of fae-to-fae supervision did you reeive? j) Who assessed the ompulsory pratial experiene? k) How was the ompulsory pratial experiene assessed or graded? l) Please desribe the nature of the work that you performed inluding the various tasks you undertook for this ompulsory pratial experiene 4. ADDITIONAL QUALIFICATIONS IN PSYCHOLOGY COMPLETED If you have ompleted more than three (3) qualifiations in psyhology, please attah a separate sheet giving your answers to the questions a) j) above for eah additional qualifiation. 7 OF 14

8 MEMBERSHIP/REGISTRATION DETAILS (if appliable) 1. Do you hold membership of a psyhology assoiation in any ountry, inluding Australia? Yes No If Yes, please attah ertified proof of urrent membership and omplete the following: (If you hold membership of more than one psyhologial organisation, please attah a separate sheet giving details). (i) (ii) Name of organisation: Membership number and grade of membership: (iii) Duration of your membership in years and months: 2. Do you hold registration to pratise as a psyhologist in any ountry, inluding Australia? Yes No If Yes, please attah ertified doumented proof of urrent registration/liensure and omplete the following: (If you hold registration with more than one registering authority, please attah a separate sheet giving details). (i) (ii) Name of registering/liensing authority: Registration/liensure number: (iii) On what date were you first registered/liensed: (iv) Duration of your registration/liensure in years and months: PRIVACY INFORMATION 1. We are ommitted to proteting your privay, and the onfidentiality and seurity of the personal information you provide. 2. The personal information provided by you on this form will be used to: assess the Australian omparability of your psyhology qualifiations; provide the APS with statistis related to the number and type of assessments undertaken by the APS, and the ountries in whih appliants undertook their studies. 3. If you do not provide us with this personal information, we may not be able to proess your appliation. 4. Statistis related to the number and type of assessments undertaken by the APS gained from the personal information you have provided on this form will be dislosed on a regular basis to Australian Eduation International the Eduational and Professional Reognition Unit, a department of the Australian Commonwealth Government. 5. You have the right to aess personal information held by the APS that relates to you, subjet to the exeptions in the Privay At 1988, and to orret suh information whih is not aurate. Please ontat the APS National Offie with any suh request. 6. For more information on the Australian Psyhologial Soiety s poliies regarding privay, refer to the APS website at psyhology.org.au. Copies of the full APS Privay Poliy may be obtained from the APS National Offie on request. 7. I understand that in response to a request from the Department of Home Affairs (formerly the Department of Immigration and Border Protetion) or a psyhologist registration board, the Australian Psyhologial Soiety may, at its disretion, dislose information held about my qualifiations, experiene, and pratie as a psyhologist. 8 OF 14

9 DECLARATION I hereby delare that: 1. I have read and understood the aompanying Guidelines and Proedures for Assessment of Psyhology Qualifiations. 2. All information submitted by me in this appliation is true to the best of my knowledge. I understand that any misleading statement, or omission, may be ause for rejetion of this assessment. 3. I understand that whatever the outome of my assessment appliation, I will be harged the urrent relevant assessment fee. 4. I understand that doumentation submitted to the APS in support of my appliation will not be returned. 5. I understand that if for whatever reason I have to withdraw my appliation, I will be harged the full and urrent relevant assessment fee. 6. I understand that by seeking an assessment of my psyhology qualifiations from the Australian Psyhologial Soiety, I aept that any report on the assessment of my qualifiations will be the opinion of the Australian Psyhologial Soiety Ltd only. Where that opinion is provided for the purpose of assessment by Australian Eduation International the Eduational and Professional Reognition Unit on behalf of the Commonwealth of Australia, of qualifiations obtained overseas by psyhologists wishing to migrate to Australia, the opinion may be relied on only by the Commonwealth of Australia. The opinion annot be relied upon by any other person as being determinative for any partiular purpose, and The Australian Psyhologial Soiety Ltd aepts no liability for any loss or damage inurred by you or any third party as a result of reliane on the opinion. Signature: Date: / / DD MM YY ASSESSMENT FEE The ost of the assessment fee depends on the purpose for whih you need the assessment. The following fees are for appliations reeived until 31 May If applying after this time, you must obtain an updated form from the APS website at psyhology.org.au or from the National Offie of the APS (refer to the enlosed Guidelines and proedures for ontat details). If you do not submit an updated form, the proessing of your appliation will be delayed. Employment $1, AUD (GST free) Entry to an Australian aredited tertiary ourse in psyhology $ AUD (GST free) Please note that the assessment fee is not refundable under any irumstanes. PAYMENT 1. Please staple or pin payment here if paying by heque, postal order or international bank draft (in Australian dollars only), whih should be made payable to: The Australian Psyhologial Soiety Ltd. OR 2. If you are paying by redit ard, please omplete the following details: APS Amerian Express Amerian Express Masterard VISA Amount: $ Card number: Expiry date: / MM YY Card holder s name (please print): Card holder s Signature: Date: / / DD MM YY IMPORTANT: Your assessment will not be proessed unless payment is provided. 9 OF 14

10 HAVE YOU...? enlosed ertified degree ertifiates showing proof of ompletion/onferral for eah psyhology qualifiation? (in both the original language, and offiial English translation, if appliable). enlosed ertified aademi transripts, showing individual subjets for eah psyhology qualifiation? (in both the original language and offiial English translation, if appliable). enlosed ertified evidene of details from your thesis? (if appliable) enlosed ertified evidene of membership and registration/liensure? (if appliable) enlosed ertified evidene of hange of name? (if appliable) enlosed a detailed opy of your urriulum vitae? ompleted the form and signed the delaration setion? attahed your payment? HOW TO LODGE YOUR APPLICATION Appliations an be mailed to our postal address at: Assessments The Australian Psyhologial Soiety Ltd PO Box 38 Flinders Lane VIC 8009 AUSTRALIA OR ouriered to our street address at: Assessments The Australian Psyhologial Soiety Ltd Level 13, 257 Collins Street Melbourne VIC 3000 AUSTRALIA 10 OF 14

11 GUIDELINES AND PROCEDURES ASSESSMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY QUALIFICATIONS UNIVERSITY ENTRY OR EMPLOYMENT IMPORTANT: Please read these explanatory notes arefully before ompleting the Assessment of Psyhology Qualifiations appliation form. The information on the Assessment of Psyhology Qualifiations appliation form is olleted by the Australian Psyhologial Soiety (APS) for the purpose of assessing the omparability of aademi qualifiations in psyhology, and may be ollated and used for internal review to analyse trends and statistis. All personal information will be handled onfidentially. Introdution An APS assessed Statement of Psyhology Qualifiations is an opinion on the omparability of your aademi studies in terms of Australian qualifiations. The APS may only assess ompleted tertiary qualifiations and does not assess supervised work experiene. In forming an opinion, the APS gives areful onsideration to a range of fators, inluding the eduation system of the ountry onerned, the awarding institution, and the level, struture, length and ontent of the programme of study undertaken. An APS Statement of Psyhology Qualifiations reflets the views of the APS based on material you have presented with your appliation, and following in-depth srutiny using the best available resoure information. The APS aepts no responsibility for the judgements made by individuals or third parties whih may disagree with its assessment. The APS reserves the right to ontat eduational and governmental institutions and agenies for additional information and/or verifiation of the authentiity of the material presented. If forged, altered or falsified douments are submitted to the APS at any time, no assessment will be prepared and the assessment fee will not be refunded. Who should use this form? Use this form if you are: seeking entry to an APAC (Australian Psyhology Areditation Counil) aredited ourse in psyhology offered by an Australian university (if required by the university); seeking employment in Australia (if required by the employer). This form is NOT for appliations for registration as a psyhologist in Australia. The Psyhology Board of Australia onduts assessments of overseas psyhology qualifiations for appliants seeking registration as a psyhologist in Australia. For more information please see the Psyhology Board of Australia web site: Completing the form Please note that you will need to provide all the information requested and all the douments and neessary fee before your appliation an be finalised. Inomplete appliations will not be proessed. Answer all questions in English, unless otherwise requested. Initial and date any alterations on the form. If you need more spae to answer questions, attah a signed and dated sheet giving the required details. Please send all requested douments and your assessment fee to the APS at one of the addresses indiated on the Assessment of Psyhology Qualifiations appliation form. Douments you should inlude To support your appliation, you will need to provide ertified opies of all douments listed below. Do not provide original douments (unless you do not want them returned) or photoopies of ertified opies please refer to the following setion for details on how to have your doumentation properly ertified. All non-english douments must be translated into English, and ertified opies of the English translations attahed to ertified opies of the original language douments to whih they refer. Faxed or ed douments are not aeptable. The douments to be inluded with your appliation are: 1. a degree ertifiate or diploma in the original language for eah psyhology qualifiation you hold. If your degree or diploma is not in English, you must also provide a ertified opy of an offiial English translation. 2. offiial transripts in the original language for eah psyhology ourse you have ompleted (only ompleted qualifiations in psyhology may be onsidered). A transript lists the subjets studied by the individual student eah year, the hours or redits, and the marks or grades obtained. Transripts an be obtained from your university. If your transripts are not in English, you must also provide a ertified opy of an offiial English translation. If you have reeived any exemptions or redit transfers for psyhology oursework ompleted at another university or higher eduation provider whih is not refleted in detail on your aademi reord, then you must provide the APS with a ertified opy of an aademi transript from the institution where those oursework subjets or units were ompleted. 11 OF 14

12 Guidelines and proedures ontinued single subjet major in psyhology: if your undergraduate studies in psyhology were ompleted as a single subjet major (that is, units whih were not undertaken as part of a degree) please provide ertified opies of the transripts for these subjets as outlined in point 2 above, AND a ertified opy of your qualifiation ertifiate of the degree you ompleted prior to ommening your psyhology subjets. 4. thesis details: if you have ompleted a thesis/dissertation/major researh projet as part of your degree, you must also provide ertified opies* of evidene of your thesis as follows: title page; abstrat; table of ontents; and a list of your supervisors and examiners, indiating their profession and institutional affiliation. If your thesis is not in English, you must also provide this information in a ertified English translation. Please do not send the entire thesis unless requested. * eah page of the information provided from your thesis/dissertation/ researh projet must be ertified as a true opy. 5. evidene of membership of a professional psyhology assoiation, if appliable. 6. evidene of registration/liensure as a psyhologist, if appliable. 7. hange of name doumentation: if your aademi douments are in a different name from the name you use on the Assessment of Psyhology Qualifiations appliation form, you must provide ertified doumentation for eah hange of name (for example, Marriage Certifiate or Change of Name Certifiate et). Passport extrats are not aeptable as evidene of a name hange. If you do not hold doumentation as outlined above, you should obtain the required douments from the relevant institution or authority. If you do not submit supporting doumentation as outlined above, the proessing of your appliation will be delayed. If forged, altered, or falsified douments are submitted to the APS at any time, no assessment will be prepared and the assessment fee will not be refunded. Please note that doumentation submitted to the APS in support of your assessment appliation will not be returned. Assessment files are retained by the APS for a period of ten (10) years only. Any orrespondene reeived after this time period whih relates to an assessment of qualifiations would require the resubmission of all relevant doumentation as outlined above. Translation of douments into English All non-english douments sent to the APS must be aompanied by a ertified English translation. If the douments are translated in a ountry outside Australia, the translator must be approved by the authorities in the ountry where the translation is made. Ask the Australian Embassy, High Commission or Consulate for advie if you are unsure. Translators in Australia should be aredited by the National Areditation Authority for Translators and Interpreters (NAATI) and an be found in the NAATI Diretory of Translators and Interpreters available at naati.om.au. Keep the original translation for your future use. Send only ertified opies of the English translation. Refer to the following setion for details on how to have your douments ertified. Certifiation It is essential that opies of douments are ertified. This means that you should send opies whih have been formally endorsed as true opies of the originals by a person or ageny reognised by the law of your ountry and reognised by the Australian Embassy, High Commission or Immigration Offie for this purpose. In Australia, persons who may ertify douments inlude Justies of the Peae (JPs), Commissioners for Delarations, and legal pratitioners. The APS also aepts douments whih have been ertified by an aountant, notary, pharmaist, physiotherapist, polie offier or psyhologist. The ertifying offier must not be a family member or spouse. To have your opies ertified you will need to present both the original and the opy of eah doument to the person ertifying the opies. Eah opy of the doument must be ertified separately and must show learly: the words ertified as a true opy of the original ; the signature of the ertifying offier; and the name and address or provider/registration number (where appropriate) of the ertifying offier legibly printed below the signature. It must be possible, from the details provided, for the APS to ontat the ertifying offier if neessary. Please note that it is the ertified doument itself whih must be submitted with your appliation. A photoopy of a ertified doument is not valid. 12 OF 14

13 Guidelines and proedures ontinued... Fees The ost of the assessment fee depends on the purpose for whih you need the assessment. Employment Entry to an Australian tertiary ourse in psyhology $1, AUD $ AUD The assessment fee must be paid in Australian dollars and must aompany your appliation form as: a heque, postal order or international bank draft made payable to The Australian Psyhologial Soiety Ltd; or by ompleting the redit ard details (Visa, Masterard, or Amerian Express) on the Assessment of Psyhology Qualifiations appliation form. Do NOT send ash as payment of the assessment fee. The APS is not responsible for the loss of ash sent by post. In addition, the APS does not aept diret bank transfers for payment of the assessment fee. A tax invoie/reeipt will be issued following the proessing of your appliation. Please note that the assessment fee is not refundable under any irumstanes. Fees as outlined above are urrent until 31 May If applying after this date you should note that the assessment fee may hange, and you must obtain an updated form from the APS website at psyhology.org.au or from the National Offie of the APS (refer to the bak page for ontat details). If you do not submit a urrent form and the urrent fee, the proessing of your appliation will be delayed while we obtain the orret fee and neessary information from you. GST Explanation Setion of the A New Tax System (Goods and Servies Tax) At 1999 states that a supply by a professional assoiation of the assessment of qualifiations for the purpose of (a) aess to eduation or (b) employment, is GST-free. Agents The APS normally deals diretly with appliants seeking an assessment of their qualifiations. Privay provisions prohibit the APS from disussing your appliation with other people (third parties) unless it is speifially authorised to do so. If you want someone suh as a family member or migration agent to deal with the APS on your behalf, please attah a letter signed by you whih authorises that person (by name) to at as your agent. Please speify on your Assessment of Psyhology Qualifiations appliation form where you would like the APS Statement of Psyhology Qualifiations to be sent (that is, to your personal address or to that of your agent). If you want the APS to send the Statement of Psyhology Qualifiations to your agent s address, please speify this on the front of your appliation form. Reassessment Should you disagree with the Statement of Psyhology Qualifiations deision made by the APS you should ontat the APS by phone, fax or to disuss your assessment. If, after disussion with APS assessment staff you are still dissatisfied with the APS deision and are able to provide new material in support of a re-assessment, you should put your onerns in writing, requesting a re-assessment of your qualifiations and attahing the additional supporting doumentation. Your letter should be addressed to the Coordinator Assessments, APS, at the address listed on the bak page. The APS will onsider your appliation for re-assessment on the basis of your letter and the additional doumentation supplied in support of your appliation, and respond to you in writing. Time Frame The assessment of psyhology qualifiations is a omplex proess and your assessment may take some time. The APS advises a proessing time of approximately 8 weeks for an assessment. When your assessment is ompleted, you will be notified of the outome in writing and by OF 14

14 Guidelines and proedures ontinued... After you reeive a Statement of Psyhology Qualifiations After the APS has ompleted its assessment of your qualifiations, you will reeive a letter and a Statement of Psyhology Qualifiations whih indiates the omparability of your qualifiations in terms of Australian qualifiations. Keep the Statement of Psyhology Qualifiations as you may be harged a fee (urrently AUD $30) for a replaement. The Statement of Psyhology Qualifiations you are issued by the APS is a very important doument whih may be used for several purposes: to assist ourse o-ordinators of universities determine your eligibility for entry to their aredited psyhology ourses; to help employers determine your eligibility for a partiular job. Please note that a positive assessment does not guarantee you ourse entry or employment. The independent assessment is made by the nominated psyhology assessing body*, and as suh provides only an opinion on the omparability of your psyhology qualifiations in Australia. The Statement of Psyhology Qualifiations you are issued by the APS is valid for ten (10) years from the date of the letter. However if you are seeking ourse entry into a postgraduate program in psyhology please hek with the university for its time limit requirements. * The APS is the national assessing authority in Australia for the assessment of overseas aademi qualifiations in psyhology for the purposes of migration to Australia as a psyhologist under the Skilled Migration Categories. Dislaimer of Liability Please note that by seeking an assessment of your psyhology qualifiations from the Australian Psyhologial Soiety, you aept that any report on the omparability of your qualifiations will be the opinion of the Australian Psyhologial Soiety Ltd only. Where that opinion is provided for the purpose of assessment by the Australian Eduation International the National Offie of Overseas Skills Reognition (AEI-NOOSR) on behalf of the Commonwealth of Australia, of qualifiations obtained overseas by psyhologists wishing to migrate to Australia, the opinion may be relied on only by the Commonwealth of Australia. The opinion annot be relied upon by any other person as being determinative for any partiular purpose, and the Australian Psyhologial Soiety Ltd aepts no liability for any loss or damage inurred by you or any third party as a result of reliane on the opinion. How to ontat the APS If you need more information, you an: Write to: Assessments The Australian Psyhologial Soiety Ltd PO Box 38 Flinders Lane VIC 8009 AUSTRALIA Telephone: (03) (from outside Australia) Fax: (03) (from outside Australia) assessments@psyhology.org.au Visit: psyhology.org.au/membership/qualifiations/ Please note: Drop-in onsultations are not available. If you wish to disuss your appliation in person, you will need to make an appointment. 14 OF 14 18APS-M-A-F-APQR-P1