Education Managers nec (ANZSCO 134499)

On the Short-term Skilled Occupation List and Core Skills Occupation List

From the official Home Affairs skilled occupation lists, as at 2026-08-12. Lists change at each government update — always confirm on the official page before acting.

Which lists is Education Managers nec on?

STSOL — Short-term Skilled Occupation List. Occupations on the STSOL can access state-nominated and regional skilled visas (190/491), but not the Skilled Independent 189.

CSOL — Core Skills Occupation List. The employer-sponsorship list — occupations on the CSOL can be nominated for the Skills in Demand visa (subclass 482) and the Employer Nomination Scheme 186.

Visas this occupation can access

Being on a list makes the occupation nominatable for these visas — each visa still has its own requirements (points, age, English, a positive skills assessment, and for sponsored visas a willing employer or state).

Skills assessment

A positive skills assessment for Education Managers nec comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

Education Managers nec is a VETASSESS Group A occupation on STSOL and CSOL, reaching six visa subclasses including direct Employer Nomination and state nomination — a wider reach than three of its four named education-cluster siblings. VETASSESS excludes Faculty Head, Regional Education Manager, School Principal, Education Reviewer and Education Adviser by name, and states the general nec rule directly: qualifications and employment must be highly relevant to one of the specific titles given in the ANZSCO description, not to education management in general.

Where these applications come unstuck

This code out-reaches Faculty Head on visa access despite Faculty Head carrying the objectively better list membership, MLTSSL against this code's STSOL — a genuine inversion worth knowing about before assuming the named, more senior-sounding title is automatically the stronger nomination. It is not a safe general fallback either: the exclusion list names four specific neighbouring titles, and the nec rule requires the evidence to match one of ANZSCO's own listed alternative titles for this code, not a general sense of working in education management.

An honest read on this pathway

A genuinely strong pathway in this cluster — six subclasses, ahead of Faculty Head, Regional Education Manager and, on the reliable data, close to School Principal. The lesson worth carrying from this specific code is that a nec title is not automatically the weaker option in this family; here it beats a named, better-listed sibling, while in other clusters in this same family the opposite is true. Check the actual reach for the specific pair in question rather than assuming a pattern either way.

VETASSESS assesses qualifications and employment separately. Both need documentation that agrees with itself. The Employment History Builder and Document Vault organise each trail before you lodge.

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