Changes to APEGS Registration Processes
January 12th, 2024
APEGS is always striving to be a better regulator. In December 2023 APEGS Council approved new policies regarding how academic and experience qualifications are assessed for professional registration. The changes came into effect January 1, 2024 and are aimed at ensuring fair, transparent, and timely processes, while maintaining admissions standards to protect the public. We aim to achieve a level of regulation that is both sufficient and necessary to protect the public.
APEGS will be using a confidence-based approach to both academic and experience assessment processes. In cases where APEGS has high confidence that the applicant meets the requirements to practice safely in the public interest, the review will be limited. In cases where APEGS has low confidence, the review will be more rigorous. Detailed assessments will be undertaken by professional staff, with oversight and auditing of their work by volunteer assessors and the academic and experience review committees.
These changes will affect you if you are, or are applying as, a member in training and you do not have a Canadian Engineering Accreditation Board (CEAB) accredited engineering degree or a Canadian four-year Bachelor of Science degree in geoscience. Below is a summary of the most notable changes. For more details see the website. Relevant links are provided below.
For member in training applicants:
- Any applicant that APEGS deems to be missing one or more years of full-time equivalent university level engineering/geoscience education will not be eligible for an academic assessment and their application will be denied. They may be deemed to meet the academic requirement for engineering/geoscience licensee, as appropriate.
- Only four years of acceptable experience is required to qualify for the experience option to try and get confirmatory exams waived.
- Any applicant who APEGS deems to have a four-year bachelor’s degree in engineering or geoscience at a comparable level to a Canadian one, and at least 10 years of acceptable engineering/geoscience experience, will be given the option to have a full competency assessment of their work experience prior to an academic assessment. If all the experience requirements are met, a detailed academic assessment will not be required. See website for details https://www.apegs.ca/apply/how-to-apply/engineer-in-training/academic-assessment
For work experience reporting:
- Validation of Work Experience
- With regard to the definition of “P.Eng, P.Geo or equivalent”, the definition of “or equivalent” has been expanded to include anyone registered at a full professional level in any country which is a full member of either:
- The International Professional Engineers Agreement (IPEA) https://www.ieagreements.org/agreements/ipea/members/ or
- The Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Agreement https://www.ieagreements.org/agreements/apec/members/
- With regard to the definition of “P.Eng, P.Geo or equivalent”, the definition of “or equivalent” has been expanded to include anyone registered at a full professional level in any country which is a full member of either:
- Submission Quality Checks
- Professional staff will be doing a quality check on all competency-based assessment submissions. If the quality check is not passed applicants will receive a notification of the shortcomings and be required to redo their self-assessment, including validations before the submission will be formally assessed. See the APEGS website for details https://www.apegs.ca/apply/how-to-apply/work-experience-reporting.