NEF Assured
BENEFITS
It helps achieve business objectives…
The standard is geared towards ensuring that your organisation’s investment in training impacts directly on business objectives and performance.
It stretches your organisation…
The standard stretches your organisation’s commitment to delivering high quality training and to continuously improving its approach.
It enables benchmarking…
The standard offers a cost effective means to establish a high degree of consistency in your organisation’s training and to benchmark your approach to training with others.
It ensures training is recognised…
The standard allows an organisation’s in-house training to 'count' towards CPD points, APEL and other forms of credit recognition.
This is a sector based industry standard for assuring deliverers of training and education. It has been specifically developed to assure the quality of in-house training and education. The outcome focused NEF Assured standard helps organisations enhance their approach to training. The standard recognises the need for continuous improvement and for training to positively impact on business objectives.
The flexible standard offers a fast but robust approach to assuring organisations delivering training and education by adding a sector specific component to existing and widely used quality assurance standards and systems.
STEM Assured is the standard in Further Education that recognises cross-curricula vocational STEM education and training that is employer led.
NEF Assured and STEM Assured provide highly valuable, independent validation of your organisational approach to training and education. These standards are acknowledged by the Department of Business, Innovation & Skills, UK Commission for Employment & Skills and the National Apprenticeship Service. NEF Assured Nuclear is recognised by the UK’s National Skills Academy Nuclear.
Visit our dedicated website: www.nefassured.org
Sectors
NEF Assured is applicable to many sectors where training and education is critical to achieving strategic objectives and consistency in quality delivery. It can be applied to organisations operating in such sectors as (but is not limited to):
- Nuclear*
- Travel and Logistics
- Low Carbon
- Power
- Advanced Manufacturing
- Aerospace
- Utilities
- STEM
- Health
- Public Sector
The NEF Assured Standard highlights performance in six category areas:
1. Strategy and planning
2. Engagement
3. Design and delivery
4. Innovation
5. Standards
6. Impact
If you would like to undertake or enquire regarding the assurance process contact us on info@thenef.co.uk or call +44 (0) 208 786 3677.
*NEF Assured (Nuclear) provides a highly valuable, independent validation of your organisation’s approach to training which is recognised by the National Skills Academy Nuclear.
The NEF Assured (Nuclear) standard is applicable for Site Licensed Companies and other organisations operating in the nuclear sector, which hold an existing quality standard such as ISO 9001 and Investors in People.