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ICREPs launches new global accreditation programme for education providers

The International Confederation for Registers of Exercise Professionals (ICREPs) has recently launched a new service - the International Accreditation of Exercise Educators - to provide a way to recognise education providers operating in countries without a national registration system (i.e. no register that is a member of ICREPs).

The International Accreditation of Exercise Educators (IAEE) offers a means by which education providers operating in countries without a national registration system can have their graduates internationally recognised and ultimately portable to countries with national registers under ICREPs.

 IAEE offers two options:

• Comprehensive: enabling portability of graduates through an official certificate of achievement
• Basic: while not providing portability, it maps and verify standards being used against international benchmarks, as in the Comprehensive option, so acts as a promotable quality mark, especially in countries with no universally accepted national standards.

Until now the focus at ICREPs has been around supporting the development of national registration bodies for exercise professionals, however not all countries have the capacity or easy pathway to achieve this. Through IAEE we are now able to recognise education providers in these countries, while also providing a way to transition providers to an ICREPs national register should or when one forms. The key is ensuring that we continue to support our national registers, while also allowing education providers in countries without one to be recognised.

To deliver IAEE, ICREPs has partnered with PD Approval, which already carries out accreditation of education providers in multiple countries. Their skills in auditing and accreditation, together with ICREPs’ global standards, provide a platform that exercise educators can use to offer their graduates professional recognition and a pathway to international portability.

For more information visit www.icreps.org/iaee https://icreps.org/provider-accreditation-programme/

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