Vocational & High-School Credentials for WES: Common Blockers

For vocational or high-school credentials the hard part is rarely the documents themselves. It is school verification: WES must contact your school to confirm the credential. These are the situations we meet again and again.

1. Who does WES’s verification email go to?

WES sends a verification email to the school’s mailbox. Typical problems: the school website lists no email, the email never arrives, or nobody knows whether to reply in Chinese or English. Pre-briefing the school so WES reaches the right mailbox the first time saves a lot of time.

2. The school opens the verification page and finds no applicant details

We have seen schools receive the email and access code, yet the page was blank with no verification reference. The fix was to ask WES to re-send the email and have the school reply directly to the original verification email.

3. The school has closed, or has no email

• Identify which body now holds the records and ask it for a letter.
• Ask WES to send a paper verification letter. This carries uncertainty: postal delays and lost mail do happen.

4. If you took the gaokao, there is a shortcut

For vocational or high-school graduates who sat the gaokao, verifying the gaokao score report through CHSI can skip the burdensome school-verification step.

5. Lost certificates

A certificate lost many years ago is not a dead end. In a 1998 graduate’s case, the stamping process plus communication with the education bureau and CHSI produced a CHSI verification.

6. One-year vocational programmes

A one-year vocational programme may not meet WES’s criteria, and such programmes vary widely. Assess before you commit.