Application guidance
Approved
Training Partners
March 2016
Introduction
The CQI is the only chartered professional
body dedicated entirely to quality. IRCA is its
specialist division dedicated to management
system auditors. Over the last 30 years, the
two brands have become world leaders in
developing the quality and auditing profession,
providing the highest standards of training to
more than one million professionals globally.
CQI and IRCA Certified Training is a new,
integrated, portfolio of short courses that
provide both the quality profession and wider
business with the skills they need to excel. The
courses will be delivered through a network of
Approved Training Partners, offering an exciting
new opportunity to organisations who wish to
provide relevant, valuable training to a growing
and ambitious workforce.
This brochure offers guidance to organisations
who are interested in working with us to deliver
our new CQI and IRCA Certified courses.
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Benefits of becoming
an Approved Training
Partner (ATP)
By gaining approval as a CQI and IRCA Approved Training Partner, you can apply for course
certification. Becoming an Approved Training Partner will enable your organisation to:
• Deliver a portfolio of courses that has been • Provide choice and flexibility to your
designed to suit employers’ needs. Quality- delegates and clients with our short,
related knowledge and skills are in increasing modular courses that can be delivered
demand across many industries; you can in a variety of different methods.
offer a modern, relevant suite of learning that
employers and professionals are asking for. • Gain recognition from two world-leading
brands in the quality and auditing
• Access a large market of delegates with a professions, the CQI and IRCA.
range of course topics and levels, including
both professionals working in quality and • Demonstrate to your delegates and
those in different functions or roles. clients that your courses meet the
highest professional standards.
• Deliver tailored certified courses for a
specific industry or sector, so you can offer • Promote your courses to a global
specialised training to suit the needs of audience of professionals through
your clients, delegates or employees. listing on our online directories.
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How to become a CQI
and IRCA Approved
Training Partner
To ensure that you have the systems and Please contact the CQI directly for the criteria
processes in place to develop and deliver CQI required to become an Approved Training Partner.
and IRCA Certified courses effectively, you must The CQI will provide you with the application
first gain approval as a CQI and IRCA Approved form and guidance on how to complete the form.
Training Partner. The application process consists of these steps:
1 2 3 4 5
Submit an Initial check of Desktop review of On-site validation Offer of Approved
application form your application your application visit Training Partner
status
We may ask you for We may once again
extra information, or ask you for extra You will be required
recommend corrective IF SUCCESSFUL information, or IF SUCCESSFUL to sign a Par tnership
actions that need to recommend corrective Agreement. Once this
be implemented. actions that need to be has been signed, you
implemented. will then become an
Approved Training
Par tner
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How to apply for CQI and Fees
IRCA Certified Training
Our fee system is straightforward and simple.
All Approved Training Partners and course
cer tification fees are outlined below.
There are no extra, separate fees or
course certification exemptions – what you see is what you pay.
Fees for Approved Training Partner status
Initial application fee £1,000
Please note that to maintain your
Approved Training Partner status, you
1
must submit a course for certification
within six months of receiving Fees for course certification
Approved Training Partner status. Foundation Practitioner Professional
Submit required materials to the
Levy fee (per delegate) £20 £25 £30
Once you have decided which CQI CQI
and IRCA Certified course(s) you wish Annual fee (per course) £200 £250 £300
to deliver, you will need to design the
2
course materials and outline of the
course delivery plans for the chosen
course. For more information on the
individual courses specifications and Desktop review of materials
further guidance, please contact the CQI. We may ask you for extra information,
or recommend corrective actions that
need to be implemented.
Guidance
On-site observation
(at the CQI’s discretion) We may
conduct an on-site review if it is deemed
H H H
Initial application fee Levy fee (per delegate) Annual fee (per course)
necessary, to observe the course you
This is a one-off fee You will be required to This is payable for every
are submitting for certification.
that you pay when submit your delegates’ course that is certified
you submit your data to us as soon as they by the CQI and IRCA
application to be an have attended the course on the anniversary of
Approved Training – but no longer than receiving Approved
Par tners. As long as five working days. We Training Par tner status.
3 you maintain your
Approved Training
will send you a monthly
invoice for the levy fees
There are no extra
charges for variations
Offer of Certified course status Par tners status, you based on the delegate of certified courses,
will never have to data submitted within ongoing assurance or
pay this again. the relevant month. on-site surveillance visits.
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What to do next
Please contact the CQI for copies of the Approved Training Partner
criteria and specifications for individual courses. Or to start your
application, download an application form from our website
at www.thecqi.org
Queries?
If you have any questions in relation
to the application and course
certification process, please contact
us at trainingpartners@thecqi.org
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The Chartered Quality Institute
2nd Floor North, Chancery Exchange,
10 Furnival Street, London, EC4A 1AB
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