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Education plays a vital role in the development of any nation. Therefore, there is a premium on both quantity (increased access) and quality (relevance and excellence of Software education programmes offered) of Continuing Software Education and Continuing Professional Development.
Like in any other domain, the method to improve quality remains the same. Finding and recognizing new needs and satisfying them with products and services of international standards.
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 Accreditation :
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NEFRON Accreditation is the process whereby the educational, organizational and administrative aspects of a Software organization, including program planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation, are measured against an NEFRON peer-set principles and standards.
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Accreditation is also the process and quality improvement tool that the NEFRON uses to evaluate international Software institutions’ services and improve the overall quality and delivery of the Software education programs. Furthermore, accreditation provides recognition that an organization’s Software education activities are meeting international standards of quality and excellence. Other benefits include:
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Promotes Software and educational curriculum validity. |
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Improves Professional Development within the IT organization and the community; regionally, and internationally. |
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Assists the institution to know its strengths, weaknesses and opportunities through an informed review process. |
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Identifies internal areas of planning and resource allocation within the continuing professional education. |
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Enhances collegiality locally, regionally and internationally. |
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Initiates institutions into innovative and modern Software Education methods of pedagogy. |
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Gives institutions a new international sense of direction and identity. |
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Provides the IT organization with reliable information on quality of Software education offered. |
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Represents the highest quality of Software education an organization can reach. |
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Promotes intra and inter-institutional interactions. |
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Demonstrates accountability to international and local funding agencies and to the public. |
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Demonstrates the organization’s commitment to excellence in Software education for your programmers and other IT professionals. |
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Recognizes the organization’s compliance with NEFRON’s international CSE quality standards intended to help achieve the highest level of performance and continuous improvement. |
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Demonstrates interest, determination and commitment to self-improvement. |
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Elevates the organization in stature as the number of NEFRON international accredited organizations grows. |
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Facilitates continuous Quality Improvement. |
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Improves the organization’s staff morale. |
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Recognizes the achievements/innovations of the organization. |
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Facilitates information sharing within the agency and with other public Process agencies, nationally and internationally. |
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Assists agencies in addressing changes in public Process. |
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Strengthens patient confidence and demonstrates the organization’s commitment to excellence in quality care for the patients, residents or individuals served. |
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More benefits of NEFRON accreditation include:
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 It represents quality |
Successful Software organizations look for ways to communicate their commitment to excellence. In the scientific community, NEFRON accreditation shows that an institution is serious about setting, achieving and maintaining high standards for educating their programmers and other IT professionals. Around the world, NEFRON accreditation is recognized as a symbol of Quality in the delivery of Software education. |
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| It's a recruiting tool |
NEFRON-accredited organizations use their accreditation as a recruiting tool to attract the best and brightest IT professionals, speakers and professors. Talented professionals look for high-quality programs, and accreditation assures potential faculty that the institution is dedicated to achieving the highest standards for Software education. |
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| It attracts international participants and speakers |
NEFRON accredited organizations can easily attract IT learned participants to attend their conferences, since their programs are internationally accredited. The CSE accredited units offered in Software activites are what most programmers and other IT professionals look for, since many Software institutions nowadays have a handful of faculty members who are U.S. Board Certified, and accredited Software conferences are particularly important for those specialists to meet their annual licensure requirements. |
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| It demonstrates accountability |
Today, Software organizations in most countries are held to very high levels of accountability--by their own constituents and the general public.
Accreditation through NEFRON demonstrates the willingness of the organization to go above and beyond the minimums required by Software authority. It tells the public that the institution is committed to the highest level for educating their programmers and IT professionals to meet the latest global standards in Software technology that benefit their community. |
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| It impresses funding sources and research partners |
Many private organizations strongly recommend that grantees for continuing Software education be part of an NEFRON-accredited program. Most Government agencies worldwide see NEFRON accreditation as a commitment to program excellence. Both private and public funding sources view accreditation as an assurance that CSE programs meet the NEFRON policies & Standards. |
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NEFRON Accreditation insight
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Accreditation is a voluntary process involving several steps. Once a IT organization's application is accepted, it conducts its own self-assessment using NEFRON International Accreditation Guidelines, Standards, and Policies. The next step is an on-site survey conducted by a highly trained NEFRON survey team experienced in both the Critical and administrative aspects of continuing Software education (CSE).
When they have completed their survey, the team makes an accreditation recommendation, which is then reviewed by NEFRON's Accreditation Review Committee (ARC) and the Monitoring Committee (MC), who both collect review, and analyzes data including; investigating the organization’s previous and current activities, evaluating the academic and administrative planning of the organization’s Software education area, including;
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| Purpose and Mission: |
Why the organization is implementing Continuing Software Education programs. |
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How the organization provides Continuing Software Education activities and how well they are attaining their purpose in providing these activities. Accreditation may be awarded for a varied duration period depending on the organization’s score and overall evaluation during survey. The accreditation decision could be deferred or denied as well. |
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What the organizational support and formalities are for the Continuing Software Education unit. |
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What are the organization’s future long and short term planning and for their Continuing Software Education programs and activities. (Including possible planning for regionally and/or internationally sponsored CSE activities).
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The Accreditation Review Committee (ARC) then raises a recommendation to the Committee for Authentication and Recognition (CAR) according to the ARC’s results on the data collected, reviewed and analyzed.
The Committee for Authentication and Recognition then makes the final determination whether or not the organization is in compliance with the NEFRON International Standards & policies.
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NEFRON International Standards & Policies
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The NEFRON recognizes that the professional responsibility of programmers requires continuous learning throughout their careers, appropriate to the individual developer’s needs. The NEFRON also recognizes that programmers are responsible for choosing their CSE activities in accordance with their perceived and documented needs, individual learning styles, and practice setting requirements and for evaluating their own learning achievements. The NEFRON Standards & Policies, therefore, are designed to encourage providers to consider the needs and interests of potential developer participants in planning their CSE activities and to encourage the programmers to assume active roles in the planning process.
In the Standards & Policies, the NEFRON has identified certain Elements of structure, method and organization which contribute to the development of effective continuing Software education.
The Standards & Policies are the requirements that a provider must meet for accreditation.
They provide a valuable resource for programmers planning their own CSE and for providers designing CSE activities and programs.
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Results
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The certificate of accreditation is the most visible result of the process. The ultimate value of accreditation, however, lies in the on going self-analysis, peer review, and consultation the center gains as it continues its participation in the program. |
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Capabilities of NEFRON
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The NEFRON is a worldwide accreditation body for Continuing Software Education and serves as an advocate for the provision and documentation of the highest quality in the IT organizations. This is accomplished through the development of standards and through its survey and international accreditation programs.
Being the original multidiscipline and multi-specialty accreditation organization to focus exclusively on Software education as being the spine for optimum public Process, the founders of NEFRON were both visionary and pioneering. The NEFRON simultaneously recognized and embraced Software education and challenged this newly emerging modality to meet rigorous standards for self-improvement and credibility.
The NEFRON Accreditation Handbook is revised on an annual basis. The revisions of its internationally recognized standards reflect the experience, knowledge, and wisdom gained over the years by the NEFRON’s nearly 19,100 Fellows, Chairs, Committees, Surveyors, Staff, and accredited organizations, and through the review and consultation by many interested IT providers world wide. NEFRON Accreditation Standards and Policies are under constant surveillance by our organization to ensure their continued relevance. They are revised when necessary to maintain value and to reflect the rapid changes in Continuing Software Education for programmers (CSE), continuing IT education (CIE), Continuing Engineering Education (CEE), Continuing Mathematics Education (CME) and Continuing Professional Development (CPD) for other IT professionals, all while remaining grounded in our fundamental commitment to the highest quality IT.
The NEFRON is dedicated to educating providers in the NEFRON Quality Assurance and Accreditation Standards, Policies and Procedures. In addition to providing education programs and presentations at major national and international Software conferences each year, NEFRON implements its own full-length educational sessions several times throughout the year, for the benefit of the accredited organizations.
Although change is an inherent part of its philosophy, NEFRON's basic principles remain firmly intact. NEFRON intends to continue its tradition of using programmers, developers, IT managers, testers, administrators, and other IT professionals who are actively involved in Continuing IT Professional Education and Development to conduct its accreditation surveys.
Since its founding, NEFRON has conducted thousands of accreditation surveys of all types of Software organizations including Software education, software companies, communication companies, faculties of IT engineering, IT schools, Engineering schools, Mathematics schools, allied IT schools, not for profit Software foundations, Software publishing companies, single and multi-specialty group practices, Processcare delivery systems, Software associations, specialty Software societies, voluntary IT association, and other Software institutions. Over 1700 organizations worldwide are currently accredited by the NEFRON.
The core standards developed and used by the NEFRON during its accreditation process include: Quality Software Education (QSE), Governance, Administration, quality in the delivery of Software education, Quality Management & Improvement, Critical Records and Process Information, Professional Improvement, and Facilities & Environment. As the lead standard of the NEFRON's Accreditation Handbook of Standards, the Quality and Methods of the Delivery of CSE programs standard sets the tone for all remaining standards. This standard underscores the very essence of the accreditation process, which is to determine that IT organizations are positively addressing essential elements in learning methods to ensure that its maximum benefits is reached by the programmers, developers, IT managers, testers and all other IT professionals, and that the learned developers and IT professionals have adopted a newer method in Software diagnosis and treatment. Throughout the NEFRON standards, issues related to aspects of quality assurance, quality measurement and the organizations continuous compliance with the NEFRON International Accreditation Standards and Policies, including any amended policies.
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