Welcome to this our very first newsletter entitled “Pass It On” - we hope you enjoy it and encourage you to share this information with other colleagues and clients who are involved in training, learning and quality. 

We are the first and only company to bring the International Standard ISO 10015(+) to the UK with the aid of our Swiss partners, AdeQuaTE® of Geneva.

Our intention is to improve the standard of training - its management, systems, provision and return on investment across the UK and beyond. 

This newsletter comes out four times a year - it is quick to scan (3 minutes) and provides links to other interesting information which should take a minimum of 15 - 20 minutes to read.

• For Quality Management in Training to be reconised it has to be valued by individual training practitioners and organisations alike 

• Any interventions to improve Quality Management in Training have to provide something that isn't in place already 

• The purpose of addressing Quality Management in Training is to make a difference to performance and organisational improvements

Maybe your training provision already meets the International Standard ISO 10015(+)?  If so, register with us to obtain the Certification Award (it can be achieved against provision as well as systems and processes).

Perhaps you want to know more about ISO 10015(+) and be amongst the first in the UK to benchmark your training function against this standard, then register your interest  with us today and be amongst the first to work towards this International Standard

As interest in this International Standard increases we will need experienced professionals (from either a training, education or quality management background) to become Auditors and Internal Advisers for ISO 10015(+)

If this sounds like you, then check out our website for information about our forthcoming training programme due to start in 2009 - places will be limited so as to ensure personal support and guidance through the two phases of the programme.

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Organisation for Quality in Training (OFQT) publishes a quarterly newsletter for trainers, HR managers, coaches, consultants, organisations and quality management professionals.

If you want your training provision or your organisation to meet International Quality Standards in Training then subscribe to receive the newsletter and visit www.ofqt.com for up-to-date information about how quality standards are starting to shake up training in business and academia. 

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Training is as old as the hills - but have we stopped learning?

David, OFQT Founding Director, has once again been on his travels promoting the value of learning.

This time he has been to Cyprus (where he was introduced to AC Nielsen - a global market research organisation).

He was asked to return in November as a keynote speaker at the 7th Human Capital Conference, organised by PricewaterhouseCoopers (Cyprus) where he will be speaking about the future of learning.

As a coincidence, he will also be there the same week in November presenting a paper on e-mentoring at ECEL '08

Click here to read more about this conference

In addition to the above, David was the keynote speaker at the HR Vocational School Congress on 4/5 September in Romania, where he spoke specifically about ISO 10015 and was not only interviewed by the local media but the conference organiser appeared on television to talk about ISO 10015(+).

Click here to read more about this conference.

Award winning high impact quality presentation

Józefa,OFQT Founding Director, has also been away but to Budapest in Hungary to appear at the 15th Annual Conference held by ECLO (European Consortiurm for the Learning Organisation).  She spoke to an International audience about the value of introducing quality standards in training as a way of encouraging Lifelong Learning.  Conference participants voted her the winner of the ECLO Budapest Conference Speakers Award for the speaker whose content and presentation had the most impact.

Click here to learn more about the next ECLO conference which will be held in Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands in June 18/19 2009. 

Quality Management training - generic or sector specific

Dr Raymond Saner, is a Director of CSEND/AdeQuaTE, Geneva and a Visiting Professor of Organisational & International Management, Basle University.  As a former Swiss member of the ISO/TC176/SC3/WG4 that developed ISO 10015 guidelines for quality management in training, he presents an overview of how other countries around the world are approaching quality standards in training.

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