Quality-assured training through CIMSPA Education Partners

Our commitment to high-quality training provision for the sector.

CIMSPA’s role is to ensure that everyone in our sector is working to a consistently high standard and is equipped with the right knowledge and skills to perform their roles and progress in their career.

When organisations become CIMSPA Education Partners, we can officially endorse the CPD, training and qualifications that they deliver. To ensure that endorsed learning is of the highest standard, all of our partners go through a quality-assurance checking process. The result of this process is a CIMSPA quality assurance outcome.

To help you find the best learning for you, we list all training opportunities endorsed by CIMSPA and the providers’ quality assurance outcome on our endorsed training directory.

Why choosing a quality-assured learning provider is essential

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Alignment with sector needs

CIMSPA Education Partners continually review their provision to ensure that it meets the needs of the sector – that’s you, but also employers of sport and physical activity occupations. They analyse industry requirements and data on emerging trends to ensure that the investment that you make in training better equips you and supports your career development.

Standardisation and consistency

Choosing a quality-assured training provider helps to ensure that the knowledge you gain is consistent with other professionals undertaking the same education or development. This is important for you, employers, customers and the sector as a whole because it creates a uniform level of competency, reducing the likelihood that you have a different level of knowledge and performance when you have undertaken training in the same as someone in the same role as you.

Value for money

Investing in training is a significant financial commitment, whether you are funding learning yourself or your employer is contributing to the cost. Opting for quality-assured education reduces the likelihood that there will be inaccuracies in the training and that it won’t provide the knowledge needed. This reduces the risk of you needing to retrain to gain the knowledge and skills you require.

Continuous improvement

CIMSPA Education Partners have robust processes and procedures which evaluate how well their provision delivers positive outcomes for learners and gives them insight to further improve their courses. They generally measure the effectiveness of their training through:

Comprehensive feedback systems
Performance metrics
Regular assessments

This ongoing evaluation ensures that the training is effective in delivering you the necessary skills and knowledge to enhance your professional performance.

Reliability

By choosing quality-assured learning, you can be confident that it will better equip you to carry out your role or the role that you are aspiring to. CIMSPA Education Partners will usually also offer comprehensive support and tools that will help you after you complete the course to implement your learning into your work.

Recognised CPD

To be a CIMSPA member and maintain your professional status, you must complete a set amount of high-quality CPD. By choosing a quality-assured education provider to deliver your learning, you can contribute to your professional development and continue to be recognised for the amazing work you do in sport and physical activity.

Quality assurance by CIMSPA

When education providers become a CIMSPA Training Provider Partner, Higher Education Partner or Further Education Partner, our team of independent quality assurance advisors assess the quality of their provision.

We do this to ensure that they are delivering training that adheres to their own codes of conduct, as well as other good practice guidelines such as health and safety and safeguarding. The assessment is split into three categories:

Quality of education
Learner journey
Marketing and promotion

Quality assurance outcomes

Each CIMSPA Training Provider Partner, Higher Education Partner and Further Education Partner receives one of three outcomes once they have undergone our quality-assurance process. These are:

3-star – Enhancing

Enhancing partners have evidenced best practice within most of their operations, processes and procedures.

They are recognised by CIMSPA as offering the highest quality learning.

2-star – Enabling

Enabling partners have evidenced some good practice within their operations, processes and procedures, with a few areas which require development.

These partners are provided with a clear action plan to support their progress to ensure they can offer you the best value for your training investment.