Quality assurance
What GATI enforces, not what it promises.
Every standard below is a rule the platform applies, and every figure is read from the code that applies it. Each one links to where you can watch it working.
The standards
Cohorts are capped, and the cap is enforced
Every programme has a seat limit set by its level: 14 on an executive programme, 18 on an advanced one, 22 otherwise. The cap exists so that everybody in the room is asked something, which stops being true in a lecture hall.
See executive programmesAttendance is recorded, not assumed
A register is taken in the room, day by day. A certificate of completion requires 80 per cent of the programme attended; below that the certificate says what was actually attended instead. A delegate who was there for four days of five holds a document that says four days of five.
Check a certificateContact hours are stated and counted
A programme day is 6 contact hours, so a five day programme is 30 hours and the certificate says so. An employer reimbursing a course, or a professional body counting hours towards a requirement, needs a figure that means something.
Browse programmesA date is published only once it is real
A programme appears on the calendar when a trainer has accepted it and a venue is committed, and registration closes 14 days before it starts so that materials and joining instructions reach people in time. GATI does not list a date and then look for somebody to lead it.
See the calendarEvery certificate can be checked by a stranger
Each certificate carries a code that anybody can verify against GATI's own record, without an account and without asking GATI. A credential nobody outside can check is decoration, and it is the employer rather than the delegate who needs to be able to check it.
See a specimen certificateDelegates work on their own material
Exercises run on the situations people brought with them rather than a case study about a company nobody works for. It is the difference between a programme somebody enjoyed and one that changed what they do the following Monday.
How GATI works
What this page does not claim
A quality page is where a training provider is most tempted to invent a number. These are the four GATI could put here and will not, with the reason in each case.
No satisfaction score
GATI has run no cohort it can report feedback from. A score with nothing behind it is the easiest number on a training site to invent and the hardest for a buyer to disprove.
No pass rate
GATI's programmes record attendance and participation rather than assessing candidates against a syllabus, so there is no pass to report. The certificate says exactly that.
No client list
Naming an organisation as a client is a claim that organisation can deny, and a procurement team will ask them. Nothing is listed until the client has agreed to be.
Checkable, not decorated
The marks GATI puts its own name to. Each one links to where a reader can confirm it rather than take it on trust.
- 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