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BLA Quality Mark to launch at World of Learning Show

The British Learning Association (BLA) will be presenting a seminar on the 15th November, at this year's World of Learning Conference and Exhibition at the NEC Birmingham, to launch its revised and improved Quality Mark.

The seminar, 'The British Learning Association's New Quality Mark' will take place at 13.45 in the Product Demonstration Theatre and is free of charge to all attendees.

The BLA says its Quality Mark, which has been redeveloped over the last 18 months, is targeted at both suppliers and users of learning and aims to drive the quality of learning provision and the impact that it has on organisational performance.

BLA General Manager, Brian Merison, said: "Most systems of quality assurance focus on generic aspects of achieving quality at organisational and system level.  Their non specific nature supports consistency of approach in a broad range of activities but cannot support benchmarking in specific areas of performance and application. This is why the BLA Quality Mark is unique".

The seminar will be presented by BLA Quality Forum member Alistair Morrison. In 1998 Alistair was Managing Director of Skillchange Systems when it became one of the first organisations to achieve the Quality Mark Award. Alistair has been a member of the team working on the redevelopment project.

Alistair said: "Achieving the Quality Mark took a lot of effort but it really was worth it. Going through the assessment process identified areas for development that enabled us to improve both the quality of what we produced and the productivity of our operations. The public recognition of our commitment to quality and to continuous improvement was also of great value commercially and it acted as a morale booster for everyone."

Lance Spraggons, Chair of the Quality Forum commented: "People development is such an important task for every organisation and for the UK economy as a whole.  We need methods to drive quality standards and to support those involved in the learning lifecycle. The BLA Quality Mark does that and provides a framework for continuous quality improvement."  

He added, "The revised and improved Quality Mark builds on the strengths and valuable aspects of its predecessor and introduces new categories of the award, appealing to a wider range of organisations".

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