Assessment and certification

IQAS educational assessment

Alberta’s International Qualifications Assessment Service (IQAS) evaluates international educational documents and issues certificates on the results.

These certificates show how an individual’s international education compares to educational standards in Canada.

For detailed information on how to get your education evaluated, visit the IQAS website.

Alberta Apprenticeship and Industry Training

Some kinds of skilled manual or mechanical work are known as trades. In Alberta, you can obtain accreditation in more than 50 trades, but not every trade requires accreditation.

Trade Secrets, the Alberta Apprenticeship and Industry Training website, provides information on particular trades, the registration process, work experience requirements, fees and exams.

Certification and registration requirements for employment in Alberta

For downloadable fact sheets about how to become accredited to work in many regulated occupations in Alberta, visit the Regulated professions or Regulated trades pages of this website.

Certification and Registration Requirements for Employment in Alberta (CERTinfo), a Government of Alberta online publication, provides information about regulated occupations in Alberta. The CERTinfo website provides brief fact sheets for each regulated occupation.