CONTINUING EDUCATION ACCREDITED TRAINING FOR THE NEXT GENERATION Partnering with PTC for a new generation of telecoms professionals BY KRISTIAN NIELSEN
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019 was a transformative year, the SubTel Forum team accomplished a number of industry firsts, ranging from successful conferences to publication readership records – one of the greatest accomplishments was becoming an IACET accredited continuing education provider.
WHAT MAKES IACET SO SPECIAL?
IACET Accredited Providers are a group of educators dedicated to quality in continuing education and training. All approved providers follow the ANSI/IACET Standard for Continuing Education and Training and have been thoroughly assessed by a third party, providing quality standard for their education. The International Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET) developed the original Continuing Educa-
tion Unit (CEU) and today ensures that providers of continuing education and training can prove they provide high-quality instruction by following the ANSI/IACET Standard for Continuing Education and Training through a rigorous accreditation process. “We believe this may a first for our international industry; where accredited continuing education can be offered on any continent to industry personnel. As such, we are developing new training opportunities beginning in early 2020,” said Nielsen. “Since 2001, it has been our goal to provide education to the submarine cable industry, and now with IACET accreditation, we are taking a leap forward to that end.” Using this new accreditation, we intend to design educational courses that can then appear at industry conferences around the world. Classes will be on a variety of topics dealing with key industry issues. Our aim, as with so many other avenues of SubTel Forum, is to bring another opportunity for education to market. What differentiates this new training will be official, internationally recognized credits. SubTel Forum has been pursuing relationships within the industry to bring the highest quality content in training to market. To that end, we are pleased to announce that we have formalized an agreement with the Pacific Telecommunications Council to formally accredit training sessions developed with SubTel Forum and presented during the PTC Academy. The SubTel Forum Continuing Education team will work directly with subject matter experts and industry magnates to develop and deliver the highest quality training programs available. The future of the industry is looking brighter than ever! STF
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