ozman2013 Posted April 17, 2014 Share Posted April 17, 2014 Hi All, Your help will be much appreciated, as I don’t know what todo. My Degree qualification is a ‘Degree of Bachelor ofEngineering (Honours)’ from UK. In both my EOI and application I chose ‘Honours Degree(other)’. I now realise that this is incorrect as I should have chosen ‘BachelorDegree (other)’ as my degree is recognised as a Bachelor Degree in Australia. This does not affect the points I was allocated, as bothgive 15 points. Case officer has not been assigned yet. What should I do? How series is this issue? Thank you in advance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GetMeDownUnder Posted April 17, 2014 Share Posted April 17, 2014 I pondered on this myself and chose Bachelor from the list. Honestly, I do not believe thatthat it will matter too much. You are not trying to trick them or making up information. http://www.pomsinoz.com/forum/migration-issues/173684-bachelors-honours-degree.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kangar00 Posted April 17, 2014 Share Posted April 17, 2014 Edit the application and re-submit the EOI. If you wait for the EOI to arrive, then pay the application fee, then the case officer will ask you why your supporting documents don't match the application. They can be really picky with things like this, and the consequences can be potentially serious. Legally, they can refuse your application and bar you from entering for 3 years because you gave them false information. At EOI stage, you've got nothing to lose. Just re-submit the EOI. Remember to submit EOIs for all the visa subclasses for which you might be eligible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rupert Posted April 17, 2014 Share Posted April 17, 2014 Well I would certainly consider my Bachelor (Hons) degree to be an Honours degree in Australian terms. As it is 15 points regardless, I really can't see how it matters anyway though. Even if it did, it would be too late now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boganbear Posted April 17, 2014 Share Posted April 17, 2014 I wouldn't worry about it. Employers probably wont even notice. Honours degrees, where you do a dissertation are unusual in Australia. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wrussell Posted April 17, 2014 Share Posted April 17, 2014 Hi All,Your help will be much appreciated, as I don’t know what todo. My Degree qualification is a ‘Degree of Bachelor ofEngineering (Honours)’ from UK. In both my EOI and application I chose ‘Honours Degree(other)’. I now realise that this is incorrect as I should have chosen ‘BachelorDegree (other)’ as my degree is recognised as a Bachelor Degree in Australia. This does not affect the points I was allocated, as bothgive 15 points. Case officer has not been assigned yet. What should I do? How series is this issue? Thank you in advance. [/quote Provided your degree is recognised (not from a degree mill) you have nothing to worry about Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest BrisbaneBevan Posted April 17, 2014 Share Posted April 17, 2014 If you have chance to change it, I would. The last thing you need is some pedantic jobsworth giving you a hard time about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ozman2013 Posted April 18, 2014 Author Share Posted April 18, 2014 Thanks for your advice everybody. I’m still slightly confused with what to do. Should I submit a 1023 Form (Incorrect information)? Or should I just leave it until the case officer is allocated? Thank you in advance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rupert Posted April 18, 2014 Share Posted April 18, 2014 Thanks for your advice everybody. I’m still slightly confused with what to do. Should I submit a 1023 Form (Incorrect information)? Or should I just leave it until the case officer is allocated? Thank you in advance. Leave it. It is the same thing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scattley Posted April 18, 2014 Share Posted April 18, 2014 I wouldn't worry about it. Employers probably wont even notice. Honours degrees, where you do a dissertation are unusual in Australia. I disagree....an honours degree in Australia is an extra year where you do a dissertation ...it is not a high scoring Bachelors degree. If anyone came to our company with an Honours degree we would assume it was a years research degree after a Bachelors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rupert Posted April 18, 2014 Share Posted April 18, 2014 I disagree....an honours degree in Australia is an extra year where you do a dissertation ...it is not a high scoring Bachelors degree. If anyone came to our company with an Honours degree we would assume it was a years research degree after a Bachelors. So what though? It is 15 points, this process is hard enough without inventing problems for people. A registered migration agent has already confirmed the situation on this thread. My degree has honours therefore I will call it an honours degree is someone asks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scattley Posted April 18, 2014 Share Posted April 18, 2014 I snipped out the comment I was responding to....suggesting that Australian companies would never think an honours degree had a dissertation was wrong..that is all my post was residing to...given I snipped out what I was responding to I thought it was obvious I was not commenting on the visa issue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VERYSTORMY Posted April 18, 2014 Share Posted April 18, 2014 I snipped out the comment I was responding to....suggesting that Australian companies would never think an honours degree had a dissertation was wrong..that is all my post was residing to...given I snipped out what I was responding to I thought it was obvious I was not commenting on the visa issue The two are the same. The reason being is that in Oz, many people do a range of subjects other than their main degree subject - for example in my proffession both do pretty much the same modules, but it takes 4 years to do them in Oz but 3 in the UK. I am a scientist and i had a boss who had done a lot of modules in drama and dance, so obviously in order to get the same total science modules it needed another year Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ozman2013 Posted April 18, 2014 Author Share Posted April 18, 2014 Thanks for your replies. This thread wasn’t meant to be related to any employment concerns, just permanent residency concerns. On my degree assessment letter (Engineers Australia) it states that ‘Your qualification has been assessed as broadly comparable to an Australian Bachelor degree for the purposes of awarding points for qualifications under the General Skilled Migration points test’. Has anybody had first-hand experience with this error? Has anybody else any opinions or advice? Thanks in advance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rupert Posted April 18, 2014 Share Posted April 18, 2014 Thanks for your replies. This thread wasn’t meant to be related to any employment concerns, just permanent residency concerns. On my degree assessment letter (Engineers Australia) it states that ‘Your qualification has been assessed as broadly comparable to an Australian Bachelor degree for the purposes of awarding points for qualifications under the General Skilled Migration points test’. Has anybody had first-hand experience with this error? Has anybody else any opinions or advice? Thanks in advance. Ozman we well understand you are talking about the visa application. See previous answers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sammy1 Posted April 18, 2014 Share Posted April 18, 2014 I did an honours degree in the UK. It included an in-depth dissertation in my last year. Now, in Australia my honours degree was classed as an ordinary degree by the overseas qualification unit because it was three yeas instead of four. Here an honours degree also generally means a fifth year of study. However, that is the only time that it has been considered an ordinary degree. I consider my honours degree to be equal to an honours degree here. My course was more specialised and as Very Stormy said they do tend to study a broad range of subjects in the first year here, whereas in the UK (which was true when I studied) we studied more intensively and with far greater investigation in our area of study. I seriously would not worry too much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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