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News Release from: Technology Innovation Centre | Subject: IQA Diploma
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 25 July 2005
Flexible study schemes for quality
professionals
Quality Management and Training is to collaborate with UCE Birmingham's Technology Innovation Centre in providing new flexible training for IQA (Institute of Quality Assurance) Diploma students.
UK leaders in quality training, Quality Management and Training Limited (QMand T) are to collaborate with UCE Birmingham's Technology Innovation Centre (TIC) in providing new flexible training and educational programmes for IQA (Institute of Quality Assurance) Diploma students Through distance-learning support, the combined approach will offer students, nationwide, the opportunity of choosing a comprehensive support programme tailored to their individual needs
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 17 Apr 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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Rather than being restricted to traditional, local, day-release or evening class delivery of IQA diploma courses, the new collaborative approach offers continuity to students' in their studies, wherever they are.
QMand T's tried and tested study resources will be available on a distance-learning basis, blended with TIC seminars delivered in students' local areas.
These take the form of three-day, face-to-face tutorial workshops which are included in the course fees.
Students not only benefit from the combined quality assurance expertise of QMand T and TIC, but also from automatic online linkage to the TIC library and other university resources, which include internet access to BSI standards.
Professor Graham Rogers, Dean of UCE's Technology Innovation Centre, says: "I believe that this initiative will be a major contribution in opening access and extending educational opportunities to 'quality' professionals, nationwide".
"Collaboration with QMand T will benefit our own IQA diploma students and offer valuable support for professional development in organisations throughout the UK." Students successful completion of the IQA Diploma will be recognised through their inclusion at UCE's graduation ceremony.
QMand T's Chief Executive, Geoff Vorley, says: "This exciting, new, collaborative, blended- learning approach combines Internet with education".
"It offers one of the most significant educational opportunities to quality assurance students and professionals seen in the last decade." Places on the scheme are limited.
Students wishing to register, or convert their current arrangements to the new scheme, should contact Edda Saunders at QMand T at the earliest opportunity.
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