Back to the Future for the ACS
Article 1 taken from Immigration News (Volume 177):
After a couple of months of silence and seemingly not answering their enquiry lines, the Australian Computer Society (ACS) may be about to throw a lifeline to all the depressed overseas IT students in Australia. The new ACS assessment guidelines were released covering the basic requirements for the skill assessment for migration purposes under DIAC new SOL ANZSCO lists.
It would seem the ACS has stepped back in time when the skill assessment process began back in 2001. On the new ANZCO SOL there are five computer professional occupations;
ICT business analyst
Systems Analyst
Developer Programmer
Analyst Programmer
Software engineer
International Students completing Australian qualifications
There are a number of ways to pass an ACS assessment. For recent ICT graduates, the ACS will now examine the content of your programs and see if it is relevant to the occupations you are nominating from the new SOL. It would seem they will then give you a classification (hopefully) in one of the six occupations above. You can read the complete guidelines using the following link: www.acs.org.au/index.cfm?action=show&conID=skillassessment
These new rules will of course raise concern about what exactly is meant by relevant but at least it is more flexible than DIAC’s “closely related” term.
