Accreditation
No badges. Everything checkable.
The honest answer to the question you came here to ask, and the questions worth putting to every provider you are considering, including us.
No awarding body has assessed these programmes.
None has been assessed against a published external standard, so there is no certification mark on this site and no awarding body named anywhere on it. You will find a row of logos on most competitors’ sites. We are not going to put up ones we have not earned.
That matters less than it sounds, and it is worth being precise about why. An accreditation is a proxy: a buyer who cannot inspect a provider uses a badge to stand in for the inspection. It is a reasonable shortcut, and it answers a narrower question than most people assume. A body that has assessed a quality management system has not met the trainer, and a qualification endorsement covers the qualification rather than the week.
So rather than ask you to trust a mark, everything below is built to be checked. Each one is something you can confirm from your own desk, today, before you raise a purchase order and without speaking to us.
Four things you can check before you pay.
Each link goes to the thing itself, not to a page describing it.
- 01The certificate is realEvery certificate carries a code. Type it into the verifier and it returns the programme, the dates and the delegate, or it returns nothing.Open the verifier
- 02The dates are realThe calendar publishes every sitting with its city, its length and its fee. Nothing reads 'dates on request', and no city appears until there is a date in it.See the calendar
- 03The price is the priceThe fee is on the programme page and on the calendar row, per delegate, before you speak to anybody. It covers tuition, materials and the certificate.Open the finder
- 04The terms are written downCancellation, transfer, substitution and refund are published, not negotiated after something has already gone wrong.Read the terms
What the platform enforces.
Not promises in a brochure. Each is built into how the site and the register work, which is why each links to where you can watch it operating.
- Verifiable certificateEvery certificate carries a code anyone can check
- Attendance recordedCertificates issued from a register taken in the room
- Published datesEvery date is bookable in a city GATI delivers in
- Capped cohortsSmall enough that everybody is asked something
- Practitioner facultyTaught by people who do the work, not only teach it
- Your own materialExercises run on your situations, not a case study
Five questions worth asking any provider.
Including us. Take them to whoever else is on your shortlist, unchanged. A provider confident in its answers loses nothing by you having the questions.
- Which body, and what did it assess?
- An accreditation covers something specific: a qualification, a centre, a management system. Ask which, and ask for the certificate number. A logo on a website is not an answer, and a body that assessed a company's quality system has not met its trainers.
- Is the certificate verifiable by a third party, or only by you?
- This is the useful question underneath accreditation. If the only proof a delegate's employer can get is a PDF the provider emailed them, the badge has not bought them anything.
- Who is teaching, and what have they done?
- Not who wrote the material. The person who will be in the room. Ask for the name before you pay, rather than meeting them on the first morning.
- How many people will be in the room?
- A cap is a cost decision and it shows. Thirty delegates and one trainer is a lecture, whatever the brochure calls it.
- What happens if you cancel?
- Flights and visas are bought weeks ahead. Ask what the provider owes you if the sitting does not run, and ask where that is written down.
Want something we have not published?
Ask. If the answer is that GATI does not hold it, that is what you will be told, in writing, the same working day.