Visa Classification

Please note that if you intend to use the visa subclass 575, make sure that the institution that you are or will be enrolled to is a CRICOS accredited. However, if it is not, the best option you can have is the visa subclass 547, which is the business short stay visa.

The only disadvantage of 457 from 575 is that, the latter allows you to apply for a working permit while studying or undertaking the program.

Please ask your institution first, since most of the institution will give you visa information as well.

Pre-post

Tomorrow, all institution that does not offer bridging program for the year 2011 will posted here. This will help those who wanted to take bridging course to save them from sending enquiries, and instead, have the right institution.

Conflict

Just an additional information. Although, AHPRA will waived your English language proficiency, however, most of the institution will not accept an applicant for a bridging course that has no IELTS result or OET.

We do hope that by the 1st of July 2011, there will be a clear communication between the institution and AHPRA, since most of the institution does not honor an exemption rule of AHPRA.

What Visa is appropriate

Please do not be confused with the type of visa that you are going to apply for Competence program or IRON program in Australia.

You an an option for either subclass 575 visa, which is a student visa for non-award courses. Since the bridging program belongs to the non-award course, so you can choose this option. There are some forums that i have had read giving advices of getting other types of student visa. Please note that student visa in Australia has different types and to avoid your application from being denied, kindly read more informations regarding visas in Australian Embassy Website.

The second option you can have is the short stay visa subclass 456. Kindly read it on this link, by clicking on the word CLICK HERE

Please be aware that, there are some institutions that requires you to have a specific type of visa, like for instance the VCHN in Melbourne, Victoria, where they required all those student that will take the bridging program in their institution to have a business short stay visa.

A New Cure to Cancer

MANILA, Philippines – Fourteen-year old Angeli Joyce Dy is not your typical teenager who whiles away her time shopping in malls. At 13, she’s pouring over thick science books and spending her summer at the laboratory of the University of the Philippines (UP) Institute of Biology, testing the anti-cancer, anti-bacterial properties from the bile of the milkfish (bangus).

Unlike most girls her age, Angeli, an incoming third year high school junior at the Capiz National High School, has been going back and forth to the regional office of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) in Capiz and SIFDEC library in Iloilo to make an in-depth and extensive research on her subject.

Angeli has stumbled upon an existing study on the potential anti-cancer properties of the milkfish bile and wanted to pursue this because in her own words “I want to help contribute in finding a cure to a widespread and global disease such as cancer.”

Her study recently took center stage when Angeli received the second special award from the American Association for Clinical Chemistry for her research project, “Cytotoxicity Against Human Lung (A549) and Colon (HCT116) Carcinomas, Antioxidant and Anti-Bacterial properties of Milkfish (Chanos chanos Forsskal) Bile” at the recently-concluded Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) in Reno, Nevada.

Certification of Papers for AHPRA

AHPRA always give list of institutions and people who can certify that the documents are certified copy as of that the original.

There are cases that AHPRA will return documents that has not been certified correctly. To avoid confusions, here are the lists of institution or people that can certify your documents to be a true likeness of an original.

For a complete list from AHPRA, kindly click on the highlighted link below:

>> CLICK HERE <<

Taken from AHPRA website.

For those people who are living in Australia or already in that country, the people that can certify the documents are:

• Justice of the Peace, Bail Justice, Registrar or Deputy Registrar
•  Lawyer
• Registered members of the teaching profession
• Member of the police force
• Notary Public
• Permanent staff member of AHPRA
• Commissioner for Declarations, Oaths or Affidavits (dependent on jurisdictions)
• Accountant (member of the ICA,  ASA, NIA or CPA)
• Sheriff or Deputy Sheriff

Outside Australia, the following people are authorised to certify documents:

• Justice of the peace (UK and NZ)
•  Notary Public
• Person appointed to hold, or act in the office of

– Australian Consul-­General, Consul or Vice-­Consul
– Australian Trade Commissioner of Consular Agent
– Australian Ambassador or High Commissioner
– Australian Minister, Head of Mission, Commissioner, Charge d’affaires or Counsellor
– Australian secretary of Attache


What do the above authorised officers need to do to certify your documents?

According to AHPRA, an Authorised officer should fo the following in the presence of the applicant:

• certify that each documents is a true copy of the original
• certify that the photograph on photographic documentation (e.g. license or passport) is a true likeness of the applicant
• witness the signature of the applicant

Certified documents must

• be initiated on every page by the authorised officer
• annotated on the last page as appropriate eg " I have sighted the original document and certify this to be a true copy of the original" and signed by the authorise officer
• List the name, date of certification, and contact phone number, and the number and have the stamp or seal of the authorised office (if relevant) applied.

Deadline for Nursing Licensure Examination for July 2011

Philippine government’s Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) released the deadline for the filing of applications for Nurses Licensure Examination (NLE) this July 2011, in a press release dated January 14, 2011. 

Deadline for submission of applications for the July 2011 Nursing Board Exam for repeaters is until April 15, 2011. For those first timers examinees, the last date of filing will be on May 13, 2011. And take note of this, PRC will not entertain any applications beyond the deadlines specified.

To All July 2011 Nurses Licensure Examination (NLE) applicants can now file their applications at the PRC Central Office at P. Paredes St., Sampaloc, Manila or in any following PRC regional offices:

PRC Regional Offices

• Baguio
• Cagayan de Oro
• Cebu
• Davao
• Iloilo
• Lucena
• Legazpi
• Pagadian
• Tacloban
• Tuguegarao

PRC Satellite Offices

• Butuan
• La Union
• Zamboanga