ACCREDITATION
ELISTA Education, as described in our aims and objectives and
outlined in Quality Assurance Policies wishes only to provide
a quality, valuable service for all Learners. In order to do this,
ELISTA Education, just like all other responsible education providers,
has both internal policies and procedures, as well as external
accreditation to monitor and ensure high standards in programme
delivery, student support and progression opportunities are always
met.
Internal Verification & Quality Assurance
ELISTA Education employs various procedures to ensure fairness,
consistency and quality to Learners. These are summarised in ELISTA
Education Policies and Procedures.
External Authentication and Accreditation
To ensure that ELISTA Education always conducts itself in line
with Quality Assurance Policies, and also to allow Learners to
feel confident that they are receiving the very best Education
they possibly can, ELISTA Education is 'Externally Accredited'
(sometimes referred to as certified). This means an external official
body, board or council monitors and reviews the work of ELISTA
Education. Accrediting bodies have very specific requirements
that have to be met, therefore Quality Assurance Documents, by
which a programme provider (such as ELISTA Education) conducts
themselves are usually based upon these.
Programme providers have to prove that they meet the specific
requirements by providing evidence, initially and then typically
every year (sometimes more often) to their accrediting body. Only
when initial or annual authentication processes are complete will
accrediting bodies issue certification for Learners and provide
or renew accreditation of the organisation.
Accrediting Bodies may be involved in the following:
- Approving or Validating a specific programme
- Monitoring Standard and Content of Programme Delivery
- Monitoring Quality of overall Service
- Verifying and Authenticating Student Assessment
- Supporting Learners and Programme Providers
ELISTA Education is pleased to confirm external accreditation
for all our foundation courses.
The accrediting bodies that officially oversee course quality
and certify Learners are as follows:
Canine Behaviour & Training- International Society of Animal
Professionals (ISAP)
Equine Handling, Husbandry & Instruction- International Society
of Animal Professionals (ISAP)
Human-Animal Interactions- Institute for Animal Care Education
(I.A.C.E)
Animal Welfare- Institute for Animal Care Education (I.A.C.E)
Details of ISAP can be found at www.is-ap.org
Details of IACE can be found at www.iace.org.uk
Both organisations are based in the UK, there are no such similar
accrediting bodies in Ireland. ELISTA Education is very proud
to have course accreditations from subject specific organisations
(i.e organisations that are purely concerned with animal related
education), yet recognises that National Accreditation is also
important to allow for course transfer, progression and recognition
of prior learning, as well as funding for learners. For this reason
ELISTA Education did make an application with the National Further
Education and Training Awards Council (FETAC) for accreditation.
The ELISTA Education FETAC accreditation application was made
in January of 2011. The process of assessing for accreditation
is lengthy, and unfortunately for ELISTA Education our application
was being processed at a time of merger for FETAC and its replacement
with QQAI. Our application, along with all other organisations
applications being processed at the time were put on hold. Re-application
for QQAI accreditation is something ELISTA Education is considering
and evaluating.
In addition to all foundation courses being accredited as above,
advanced progression courses are also accredited as follows:
Animal Assisted Therapy- I.A.C.E
Equine Assisted Therapy & Learning- I.A.C.E
Assistance Dog Training- I.A.C.E
Canine Training and Instructing- ISAP
Animal Rehabilitation- I.A.C.E
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