IPSQA Verified Training is a quality mark for training courses that meet a rigorous international standard for design, delivery, and learner experience, without being a professional certification under ISO/IEC 17024:2012.

What IPSQA Verified Training Is

IPSQA Verified Training is a formal course approval framework for training providers in any subject area and delivery mode. It confirms that a course is well-designed, well-delivered, and systematically maintained, but does not certify individual competence or grant a licence to practise.

Relationship to ISO 17024

IPSQA Verified Training is intentionally separate from personnel certification under ISO/IEC 17024. It evaluates the quality of training and provider systems, while ISO 17024 schemes focus on assessing and certifying the competence of individual practitioners.

The Verified Training standard is built on ISO 9001 (quality management), ISO 21001 (education organizations), and ISO 29993/29994 (learning services and distance learning). This allows providers to align their courses with the expectations of ISO 17024 certification schemes while maintaining a clear boundary between course completion and competence certification.

Benefits of IPSQA Verified Training

• Recorded on the IPSQA Global Transcript making record keeping and training verification easy.

• Demonstrate internationally aligned course quality in design, delivery, and review, supported by a published standard and compliance matrix.

• Protect learners and your brand by clearly separating training completion from professional certification while mapping content to relevant industry and regulatory frameworks.

• Use IPSQA Verified status and logo in marketing and course materials under defined rules, providing visible assurance to clients, employers, and regulators.

• Gain a structured framework for continual improvement through documented monitoring, learner feedback, internal reviews, and corrective action.

Key Requirements for Approval

To become IPSQA Verified, training providers are expected to demonstrate:

• Clear governance, leadership commitment, and a documented training quality policy with defined roles and authorities.

• Coherent course design with measurable learning outcomes, structured syllabus, defined workload, and regular content review, including mapping to external standards where relevant.

• Appropriate delivery methods, learning materials, and practical components, with controls on class size, contact time, and learner support.

• Minimum trainer qualifications, relevant experience, internal trainer approval, continuing professional development, and performance monitoring.

• Transparent learner services, including admissions, joining instructions, attendance tracking, conduct and safety, complaints and appeals, and data protection.

• Carefully worded certificates of completion, robust record-keeping and verification, and quality assurance processes covering monitoring, internal review, nonconformity, and document control.