Hong Kong Council for Accreditation of Academic and Vocational Qualifications 香港學術及職業資歷評審局 60 Authentication of Degree Certificates of Qualifications HKCAAVQ continues to work closely with awarding institutions to authenticate applicants’ qualifications. Apart from awarding institutions, we continue to devote financial and manpower resources to engage national resource centres to authenticate qualifications and hence fake qualifications were detected. During the reporting period, we identified 13 cases of fake qualifications which were reported to the Hong Kong Police for reference and necessary follow-up. Reasons for Non-assessable Qualifications Assessment Although the number of qualifications assessed and considered by our QA Service as meeting the standard of comparable qualifications under HKQF is high, there are a large number of applications that contain qualifications that are not assessable by our QA Service. In the reporting period, a total of 639 applications were not deemed as assessable by our QA Service due to: (a) the qualifications not being recognised in the home countries/areas; (b) the qualifications were fake; (c) the applicants were not able to provide sufficient information; and (d) the applicants voluntarily decided to withdraw their applications. Major Developments The QA i-Portal is the default web-platform for applicants to submit their applications and make payment online as well as for our QA Service to provide an update on the progress of their applications. Under COVID-19 pandemic, applicants have really made use of the QA i-Portal to handle their applications instead of the more traditional means such as face-to-face appointments and postal service thus allowing the QA Service to better serve our applicants/stakeholders. The continual integration and improvements of the QA i-Portal and HKCAAVQ’s Quality Management System (QMS) have greatly enhanced our service effectiveness and efficiency. Future Initiatives/Priorities HKCAAVQ’s Country/Area Profiles (CAPs) provide comprehensive information on the eight main countries/ areas with which qualifications assessments are primarily conducted, namely: Australia, Canada, Mainland China, New Zealand, South Africa, Taiwan, the United Kingdom and the United States of America. The CAPs have greatly enhanced the efficiency and effectiveness of our work in quality assurance; and we will continue to update the CAPs as well as other assessment guidelines to ensure they provide the most upto-date and relevant information to both our assessors and stakeholders. 學歷證明文件之驗證 評審局繼續與各頒授機構密切合作，以驗證申請人的學歷。除了頒 授機構外，我們亦加強利用其他國家資料庫去進行學歷驗證及識別 假學歷。在報告期內，我們共識別13宗涉及虛假學歷之申請，並已 向香港警方舉報，以作參考和跟進。 學歷評估申請不獲處理的原因 雖然非本地學歷獲評定為與香港資歷架構下的學歷水平相約的數目 十分高，但仍有相當數量的學歷因不同原因未獲學歷評估部處理。 於報告期內，共有639宗學歷評估申請不獲評估，當中原因包括： （一）學歷不受頒授國家╱地區承認；（二）虛假學歷；（三）申請人未 能提供足夠資料；及（四）申請人自願撤回申請。 主要發展 學歷評估的「QA i-Portal」是供申請人提交申請及繳交費用的官方網 上服務平台，並提供有關其申請狀態之最新信息。受2019冠狀病毒 病影響，申請人趨向透過QA i-Portal處理申請，取代預約親身遞交 或郵寄遞交等傳統方式，讓學歷評估部得以為申請人提供更優質及 實時的服務。QA i-Portal與評審局的質素管理電子系統（QMS）不斷 改良和整合，亦大大提高服務成果和效率。 展望將來 評審局的國家或地區資料庫提供八個國家或地區，包括澳洲、加拿 大、中國內地、紐西蘭、南非、台灣、英國和美國的詳細資料，作 為評估學歷的主要參考。此資料庫大大提高學歷評估成效及效率。 為確保資料庫能為評審局及持份者提供最新資訊，適時更新資料庫 以反映最新變化尤關重要。 QUALIFICATIONS ASSESSMENT 學歷評估
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