ISO 21001 Consultant for Educational Organizations Management Systems
ISO 21001 certification is now desirable for all those educational organizations who aim to enhance satisfaction of their learners, other beneficiaries and staff through the effective application of educational organization management system (EOMS). ISO 21001 consultant helps them to demonstrate their ability to support the acquisition and development of competence through teaching, learning or research. The ISO 21001 Certification helps to guarantee that education providers are offering the highest quality instruction available to learners. The ISO 21001 based management system is now recognized as an independent measure of an education provider's quality. Therefore, any organization that offers teaching and training will benefit from having its educational organization management system certified against ISO 21001 standard. Such certification is applicable to any organization that uses a curriculum to support the development of competence through teaching, learning or research, regardless of the type, size or method of delivery. educational organizations within larger organizations whose core business is not education, such as professional training departments, can also get ISO 21001 certification with the help of our team of ISO 21001 consultants.
ISO 21001:2018 Certificate is issued by an ISO/IEC 17021-1 accredited certification body, which is competent to provide such a certificate. The Educational Organization management system certification based on ISO 21001:2018 is issued by the Certification body initially for a period of three years after successful completion of pre-assessment and registration (Final) assessment. Surveillance audits are conducted by the Certification body within the period of three years at the interval of six months, nine months or twelve months depending upon the nature and size of the organization. Upon completion of three years, renewal audit is conducted for the new cycle of three years and upon successful completion of such audit, ISO 21001 certificate is re-issued for further three years. Our ISO 21001 consultants offer the best consultancy services for the total ISO 21001:2018 system implementation and certification process.
Punyam.com, a well-known ISO 21001 Certification Consultancy provider in India, is having a rich experience of system implementation and certification for various ISO standards across different types of organizations. Punyam.com helps educational organizations in implementing ISO 21001:2018 system and achieving ISO 21001 certification through any stringent audits by accredited certification bodies. Our experienced team of ISO 21001 consultants follow mainly following steps:
- Initial gap analysis and survey of the existing system
- Awareness program for all the employees on ISO 21001 Educational organizations management system (EOMS)
- Forming a steering committee and task-force for documentation
- Defining policies and establishing objectives
- Preparing ISO 21001:2018 documents for educational organizations management system based on detailed study of all activities of the organization. The documents include:
- EOMS Manual,
- Mandatory procedures required by the standard,
- Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for various activities covered under the scope of EOMS,
- Formats to establish the objective evidence of implementation and to ensure control over all the management system,
- Implementation and training of all personnel in the use of procedures and formats
- Training to employees related to risk identification evaluation and control
- Training of internal auditors for ISO 21001:2018 certification
- Assess the system through first internal audit
- Carry out management review meeting in presence of top management of the organization
- Suggest corrective actions for nonconformities
- Application for ISO 21001:2018 certification
- Assess the system through second round of internal audit
- Facilitate pre certification audit by certification body (Optional)
- Support in taking actions suggested by certification body.
- Final audit by ISO 21001:2018 certification body
- Support in taking corrective actions on the nonconformities and audit findings of the certification body
- Get ISO 21001:2018 certification.
ISO 21001 Certification and effective implementation of EOMS ensures that a robust educational organizations management system has been established and the organization and its educators are fully aware of their role within the system. Following are the key benefits of ISO 21001 certified:
- Increases quality of service and efficiency: ISO 21001 system provides a framework which is based on ‘Plan, Do, Check, Act’ concept. This framework helps to increases organizational productivity.
- Competitive Advantages: The certification helps to enhance brand reputation and ensures learners/interested partie’s confidence in educational organization, as ISO 21001 certified, is internationally acknowledged.
- ISO 21001 certification imposes credibility and helps protect your reputation
- It helps educational organizations to confirm that learners receive the well-desired quality of education while enlightening the learner’s productivity, safety, and wellbeing.
- Promotes learner-centric approach that helps to improve competitiveness and trustworthiness.
- Better alignment of educational mission, vision, objectives, and action plans
- Additional personalized learning and actual response to special educational needs
- The EOMS certification acknowledges complete and reasonable quality education for all and encourages excellence and innovation in learning.
The key requirements of ISO 21001:2018 are summarized below:
- A strategic plan for the organization considering principles of social responsibility
- Documented educational organization policy
- Focus on learners and other beneficiaries
- Fulfilment of additional requirements for special needs education
- Planning for the changes to the EOMS
- Organizational knowledge and learning resources
- Internal and external communications relevant to the EOMS
- ISO 21001 documented information including Academic calendar, Core curriculum, etc.
- A design & development process and controls appropriate to educational products & services
- Control on externally provided processes, products and services
- Control on delivery of the educational products and services
- Control on changes in the educational products and services
- Control on the educational nonconforming outputs
- Identification and traceability with respect to the progress of learners, study and employment paths, output from the work of staff
- Protection and transparency of learners’ data
- Monitoring of satisfaction of learners, other beneficiaries and staff