Breaking Down Our New Education Partner Quality Assurance Framework
Here at CIMSPA, we have introduced a new quality assurance framework for our education partners, instilling confidence in the credentials of their offering for professionals working in the sport and physical activity sector.
No matter your role in the industry, developing your knowledge and training repertoire is vital for a sport and physical activity professional. Whether you are seeking a degree programme, a qualification or a CPD course, our new framework offers transparency in order to help you make a confident and informed decision.
As the sport and physical activity sector’s Chartered Institute, we endorse and quality assure the learning and training provision that our education partners deliver to help you develop your professional status and improve the services you provide. In order to continue this and support our Training Provider Partners in offering excellent learning opportunities, each provider has been supplied with a rating that has been awarded based on an independent external review.
The new framework allows those looking for a course to check providers ahead of signing up to ensure that it meets CIMSPA’s quality standards, and reassures you that the product aligns to the standards in the sector. With an increasing number of professionals and employers only using CIMSPA-endorsed training, this gives a ‘stamp of approval’ for the training offer.
Our reviews are based on supplied evidence and evaluated against our framework, supported by our policies, procedures and relevant legislation. A provider’s rating will be based on the following principles:
- Quality of education provision
- Learner journey
- Marketing and promotion
What does each rating mean?
There are three outcomes that a CIMSPA education partner can receive:
Enhancing: the provider has evidenced best practice within most of their operations, processes and procedures, and are seen to be offering the highest quality provision to its learners.
Enabling: the provider has evidenced some good practice within their operations, processes and procedures with minimal areas for development.
Emerging: the provider has met the minimum operating standards required, but have key actions needed to be completed to ensure adherence to CIMSPA standards and expectations of its endorsed provision. CIMSPA will provide bespoke support to providers to ensure sufficient quality developments to achieve an enabling or enhancing outcome at the next quality assurance review.
