I am looking to convert my foreign degree GPA to an Australian Weighted Average Mark (WAM) as closely as possible. While I know there isn’t an exact conversion, I am still interested in seeing if the overseas qualifications recognition give out a Wam score? (just like the US wes credential evaluation which gives out the cgpa)

1. Is the format of the report and particularly WAM score same in case of direct application via NOOSR website (https://internationaleducation.gov.au/services-and-resources/Pages/qualifications-recognition.aspx); State Overseas qualifications unit and Vetassess; all these three cases; is it same or it differs? I believe it might be same for the NOOSR website and State OQUs but different for VETASSES?

2.   Given that I primarily need this for university admissions, I believe my best option is through NOOSR (or a similar qualifications recognition service), as VETASSESS is geared toward migration, and state Overseas Qualification Units are for residents.

Note: I understand that final WAM standards depend on the specific university's criteria, but I still would like to apply for this evaluation to obtain an approximate WAM score.

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Here are some of the events that happened on this day in Australian history. Please feel free to add others that you know of in the comments section.

• 1791 – A party of twenty-one convicts escape from Port Jackson and (with an obviously limited knowledge of Australian geography) attempt to walk to China. Some die in the wilderness, while others are recaptured.
• 1792 – The Philadelphia becomes the first foreign trading vessel to visit Sydney.
• 1853 – The first postage stamps of Tasmania are issued.
• 1914 – The first contingent of the First Australian Imperial Force leaves for Egypt.
• 1916 – a general coal strike began in eastern Australia.
• 1926 – General Motors opens assembly plants in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth.
• 1940 – Aviator Guy Menzies is killed when his flying boat is shot down over Italy.
• 1945 – Australia becomes a founding member of the United Nations (picture: Deputy PM Frank Forde signing UN Charter, 1945) (read the full story here).
• 1967 – Pop singer Tina Arena is born in Moonee Ponds.
• 1972 – Actress Toni Collette is born in Blacktown, New South Wales.
• 1986 – Joh Bjelke-Petersen wins his final election as Premier of Queensland with his party, the National Party, gaining 38.6% of the vote.
• 1990 – The Australian domestic aviation market is deregulated.
• 2005 – Makybe Diva wins her third Melbourne Cup.

International Observances.

• All Saints’ Day, a holy day of obligation in some areas (a national holiday in many historically Catholic countries), and its related observance:
  • Day of the Innocents, The first day of Day of the Dead or El Dia de los Muertos celebration. (Mexico, Haiti)
• Anniversary of the Revolution (Algeria)
• Chavang Kut (Mizo people of Northeast India, Bangladesh, Burma)
• Chhattisgarh Rajyotsava (Chhattisgarh, India)
• Coronation of the fifth Druk Gyalpo (Bhutan)
• Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Antigua and Barbuda from the United Kingdom in 1981.
• Karnataka Rajyotsava (Karnataka, India)
• Kerala Day (Kerala, India)
• Liberty Day (United States Virgin Islands)
• International Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome Awareness Day
• National Brush Day (United States)
• National Awakening Day (Bulgaria)
• Self-Defense Forces Commemoration Day (Japan)
• The first day of winter observances:
  • Calan Gaeaf, celebrations start at sunset of October 31. (Wales)
  • Samhain in the Northern Hemisphere and Beltane in the Southern Hemisphere, celebrations start at sunset of October 31 (Neopagan Wheel of the Year)
• World Vegan Day

Tell us what you have planned for the weekend. You can either add in the comments or make a standalone thread with the tag [TGIF].

Incoming rant about rentals:

Im 31 and 17 wks pregnant. The owner of my last rental sold up. So I'm having to live in a van and have been applying for rentals everyday for 6 months and found nothing. All been rejected. I only get $500 a week Centrelink since I can't work anymore due to my high risk pregnancy. Had no idea things would flip like this and the owner decided to sell within one month. I did try to work but I was constantly sick, throwing up, and weak. They then told me I can't work there anymore as I was having to many sick days. Cairns has such a low amount of rentals and so does innisfail so I want to move back down to Melbourne again. But having issues because I can't stay anywhere there until I find a rental. Unless I continue to live in my van while looking for a rental property. I think in total I have applied for over 300 properties in total perhaps more. And gone to about 200 inspections. Like what is going on with Australia?? There is not even any long term availability at caravan parks anymore..they are full up. And I'm on a super long waiting list with department of housing 🤦🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️ I know I sound like a broken record and a whinge, but come on Australia... Housing should be a very basic requirement for all Australian citizens... And real estates are not really helping either. Alot telling me I can't apply for a $200 a wk studio storage container that someone has flipped in their backyard because I need to be earning double of my income. And it's just not possible right now. People are even renting out tents in their backyard for $150wk.. I could go on forever but as most of you already know the rental crisis is insane . Even friends I know who earn a middle to high income are being told by real estate agents that they don't earn enough to rent... What do people think is the solution to this? Should they be building more housing or regulationing rental prices more or what?