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Managing an academic institution, be it a university, college, academy or EdTech organization in today’s competitive and complex environment can be a challenge. It involves being responsible for the health and safety of your students, faculty and staff, ensuring your organization is sustainable and resilient, and providing cutting-edge facilities. Our standards help you to overcome these challenges.

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What are the benefits of education standards to your organization?
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What are the benefits of education standards to your organization?

Using standards can offer a set of powerful business and marketing tools for educational institutions of all sizes.  You can use them to fine-tune your performance and manage the risks you face while operating in a more efficient and sustainable way; they’ll allow you to demonstrate the quality of what you do, and they help you to see how to embed best practices into your organization. The benefits of standards to education organizations When you’re offering an education service you need to satisfy your students' and/or partners' requirements, and that relies on delivering consistent quality time after time.  Standards offer a set of tools to achieve consistent quality. They do this by defining good practices for carrying out a whole range of education services and the processes and systems that underpin them. They also explain how to build a culture that encourages the delivery of high-quality services.  That’s not all: in a complex, interconnected global economy, standards can help you work seamlessly with supply chains and educational partners, and provide assurance to those procuring services, whether in the same region or on the other side of the world.  They do this by providing a common language and helping to define service requirements, customer expectations, and recognized terms and definitions. They also reduce the risks that might hit customers, such as data security vulnerabilities. How standards ensure quality education services Standards can help you plan, design, and deliver services that will work from launch.  They help you embed reliable processes, systems, and – crucially – behaviours. The standards can take the form of specifications, guidelines, methodologies for particular tasks, and terms and definitions (which help your systems draw on global best practices). Almost any education organization involved in delivering or procuring educational services will see value from standards designed to help embed quality processes, policies, and procedures and to help reduce risks to educators and students. To read more on the topic of quality management within the education sector, click here. Key standards for your education organization There are several key standards that support educational organizations: BS EN ISO 9001  BS EN ISO 9001 is the internationally recognized Quality Management System (QMS) standard that can benefit any size of education organization. Designed to be a powerful business improvement tool, this standard can help your business to: Continually innovate, streamline operations and reduce costs Win more business and compete in tenders Satisfy more customers Be more resilient and build a sustainable business Show you have strong corporate governance Work effectively with stakeholders and your supply chain BS EN ISO 45001 BS EN ISO 45001 provides a clear framework to benchmark and improve your occupational health and safety performance, as well as lay the ground for continuous improvement. Taking a standards-based approach can help education organizations understand their responsibilities and create the right structures to efficiently manage staff and student health and safety and comply with the law. BS EN ISO 45001 also integrates seamlessly with other management systems standards, such as BS EN ISO 9001 and BS ISO 14001 (Environmental management system). BS ISO 45003 ISO 45003 provides guidelines for managing psychosocial risks. It helps to tackle psychological health in the workplace. It supplements BS EN ISO 45001 to help education organizations implement a management system for psychological health and safety in the workplace. With all this in place, education business owners can respond effectively to a transforming workplace culture, managing risk by promoting a safe and healthy workforce that reflects on society as a whole. BS ISO 21001 BS ISO 21001 is primarily a standard of the management process for educational organizations. The standard is aligned to BS EN ISO 9001 and 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. This standard provides a common management tool for organizations providing educational products and services capable of meeting learners' and other customers’ requirements and needs. It focuses on the management systems of educational organizations as well as the impact of these on learners and other relevant parties. BS EN ISO/IEC 27001  Protecting your information assets in the Education sector has never been of greater importance, with more and more educational services being provided solely through a digital platform. Standards, such as BS ISO/IEC 23126:2021 specify a framework to describe and organize learning resources in ubiquitous learning. The global shift to online learning has come with the need for education organizations to advance their cybersecurity processes, to protect the data of their students and educators alike. BS EN ISO/IEC 27001 helps your business do just that.  It also helps you to continually review and refine the way you do this, not only for today but also adapt for future innovations.  BS EN ISO 14001  BS ISO 14001 Environmental management system (EMS) standard provides guidance on how to consider multiple aspects of your education business so that it can reduce its impact on the environment. It also drives you to evaluate how you manage emergency response, customer expectations, stakeholders, and your relationships with your local community. Experience the benefits of standards in your education organization, by adding all the key management system standards to your collection today. Discover BSI Knowledge Education standards, from those covering quality management to the health & safety of students, are helping to shape the future of our educational institutions. However, knowing where to start when it comes to implementing them, or sharing their guidance with your staff and students can seem like a daunting challenge. With a BSI Knowledge subscription, you will have the flexibility and visibility to manage the key standards you need in order to enhance your education processes with confidence. Request to learn more.Read more
Cybersecurity standards in schools: What your education business needs to know
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Cybersecurity standards in schools: What your education business needs to know

Education institutions need to make cybersecurity a priority. Despite the sector facing major challenges such as a lack of staffing, funding, and resources. Cyberattacks are no less frequent or less severe in education. In fact, they seem to be gaining ground in prevalence year on year as instances of breaches in schools and higher education are widely reported. Unauthorized access to personal information would be particularly harmful to students, parents, and staff. All people with a right to seek compensation if the loss of their personal data caused them damage.  The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has only exacerbated these risks. With most education institutions having to innovate quickly to deliver most of their learning online via digital platforms, they had limited time to ensure they weren’t compromising cybersecurity best practices. This left them vulnerable to attacks. To read more on the topic of innovation within the education sector, click here. Learning from this experience, all education organizations need to consider the agility of their systems. If necessary, how quickly could they switch to a model where educators and students work from home whilst protecting their information assets?  It’s a serious consideration: if your learning services and resources were to be made inaccessible by a ransomware attack, learning could grind to a halt. Standard BS EN ISO/IEC 27701:2021, an extension to standard BS EN ISO/IEC 27001, can help educational organizations effectively manage their private information. Why is the Education Sector a Target for Cybercrime?  There are four key reasons why education organizations are a target for cybercriminals. DDoS attacks – Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are a common type of attack in every education business. This is where the attacker’s motive is to cause widespread disruption to the institute’s network, leading to a negative effect on productivity. Data theft – This is another attack affecting all levels of education organizations because all businesses hold student and staff data, including sensitive details like names and addresses. This type of information can be valuable to cybercriminals for several reasons, whether they plan to sell the information to a third party or use it as a bargaining tool and extort money. Implementing standard BS EN ISO/IEC 27701:2021 for privacy information management can help protect against the theft of private data. Financial gain – Another motive for hackers carrying out an attack on an educational institution is financial gain. This might not be as high risk for state-funded schools, but with private institutions and Universities handling a large number of student fees, they’re a prime target for cybercriminals. Espionage – The fourth reason why education is a target for cybercrime is espionage. In the case of higher education institutes like Universities, they’re often centres for research and hold valuable intellectual property. As a result, they need to be suitably protected. It is thought that science, engineering, and medical research by UK Universities have been previously compromised by hackers. And with plenty of time and money to fund them, professionals are often at the helm of these attacks. Standards can help to provide a framework to protect your organization’s information assets so that they remain safe and secure. Key Cybersecurity Standards for Your Education Organization Since their inception in the early 1990s, global information security standards have grown in rigor and recognition.  So too have information security threats and the best ways to manage them.  BS EN ISO/IEC 27001 helps you implement a robust approach to managing information security (infosec) and building resilience. It advances cybersecurity processes, to protect the data of your students and educators alike and also helps you to continually review and refine the way you do this, not only for today but also adapt for future innovations. This standard reflects current best practices for information security management. It provides specific recommendations to help you establish an information security management system (ISMS), monitor its performance, and implement improvements when necessary. It also enables external assessment and certification of an organization’s information security. This standard is not unnecessarily prescriptive, allowing great flexibility in how requirements are satisfied and giving organizations the freedom to implement requirements in a manner best suited to your education organization. If you’re involved with information security and understand the need to step up your organization’s approach to personal information handling, you should buy BS ISO/IEC 27701:2019 Kit. It helps educational organizations manage and protect their information assets so that they remain safe and secure. To help education providers and learners alike cope with the enormous challenge of remote learning, standard BS ISO/IEC 23126:2021 specifies a framework to describe and organize learning resources in ubiquitous learning. As your education business continues to adapt to new innovations, protect your information assets against external threats by adding these key cybersecurity standards to your collection today. Discover BSI Knowledge The BS EN ISO/IEC 27000 series and over 100,000 more internationally recognized standards are available with a BSI Knowledge subscription which can help build a culture of digital trust in your business. Our tailored subscription service provides flexibility, access, visibility, and control over the standards and insights your educational institution needs to achieve cybersecurity. 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Teaching standards: Why education organizations should teach standardization
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Teaching standards: Why education organizations should teach standardization

Students of universities, business schools, and other institutions of higher learning are the potential managers and professional experts of the future. Whether they become engineers, economists, lawyers, business managers, or administrators within central or local government, they will be the ones to gain the most advantage from standards – and the ones to decide the future role and features of standardization. Despite the broad scope and the vast impact of standards in today’s society, standardization is still not yet a well-defined or established discipline from a theoretical or academic perspective. There are various approaches and characterizations proposed by researchers in different disciplines and by experts and practitioners from different countries and organizations.  Why is teaching standardization important? BSI and other National Standard Bodies firmly believe that teaching what is and what can be achieved through standardization is extremely important because:  Knowledge, skills, attitudes, and experience in standardization add value to professions and roles in a large variety of fields. Teaching standardization increases students’ awareness of the nature, impact, and benefits of standards to markets and society, improving their ability to contribute to company performance and public welfare. In turn, this contributes to strengthening standards development, dissemination, and use. Academics are part of our standards-makers community, either as individual experts or representing higher education institutions. Several universities and other institutions of higher learning have already embraced this concept and understand those teaching standards and standardization add value to the qualification of students in various disciplines – contributing to improving the university’s performance in meeting private and public sector needs. However, there are many more institutions that are not yet aware of the potential of teaching standardization, or of the broad set of issues addressed by standardization and of their relevance to a number of mainstream disciplines.  To help get your education organization started, BS 0 is the free standard for standards. Download the supplementary brochure The BSI Guide to Standardization today. The importance of standards in different disciplines Technical Subjects The link between standards and scientific and technical disciplines, notably engineering, is evident.  From the design of screw threads (BS 3643-1:2007) and fasteners (BS EN ISO 3506-1:2020) to technical drawings (BS 8888:2020) and the operation of machines (BS EN 60204-1:2018), technical standards are omnipresent. In each of these areas, standards not only provide the basis of good practices for designing and manufacturing good quality and safe products, they also give an important contribution to technical evolution by applying critical design constraints. That is, they allow to save vital design time and effort, simply by providing a stable foundation of already defined (and proven) properties, capabilities, and processes. Entrepreneurship & Innovation Innovation is widely recognized as one of the essential drivers of successful business and a key contributor to a nation’s productivity and economic growth. Finding ways of fostering innovation is a central concern for both forward-thinking companies and governments. Standards play a crucial role in de-risking investment and accelerating the adoption of new technologies, from the blockchain (BS ISO 22739:2020) to automated vehicles (PAS 1880:2020) through confidence in performance.  At the heart of entrepreneurship is quality management and so educational organizations should implement standard BS EN ISO 9001, which sets out what’s needed to implement a quality management system. This, ultimately, helps educational organizations of every kind improve customer satisfaction and build a sustainable future. To read more on the topic of innovation within the education sector, click here. Sustainability Standards can be an essential component of the emerging infrastructure of a new, sustainable world.  In both academic and policy circles, there is now broad agreement that promoting sustainable development requires a systemic perspective on the long-term consequences of present policies for tomorrow’s environment, economy, and society. Standards, such as BS EN ISO 14001 Environmental management system (EMS) provide guidance on how every sector can reduce its impact on the environment.  How Can Educational Organizations Teach Standardization? Standardization can be taught in the framework of undergraduate, master's, or doctoral programs, as: A particular topic embedded in courses dealing with specific disciplines (such as electrical, mechanical, or civil engineering; economics or business strategy, etc.) A topic addressed through a dedicated lecture, workshop, or student assignment, linked to one or more course A specific subject matter, e.g. through a standardization course that can fit into several curricula (as a mandatory or elective course) A significant part of an academic curriculum (comprising a certain number of courses focused on or dealing extensively with standards-related matters) A specialized academic curriculum (i.e. a bachelor’s or Master’s degree in standardization, metrology, or quality, where standardization is among the core matters of the curriculum; or as a doctoral specialization) All these approaches are valid; one size does not fit all. Depending on the specific objectives and local conditions, any of these approaches can generate significant added value for the concerned parties. Standards for education organizations There is also a range of standards that educational institutions can apply to their own operations from BS EN ISO 9001 (the internationally recognized Quality Management System (QMS) standard) to BS EN ISO/IEC 27001 (Information Security Management standard).  Among their many benefits, they can help education businesses to: improve performance cut costs manage and reduce risk increase international trade speed up innovation increase sustainability demonstrate quality build customer trust Add these key standards to your collection today to experience the benefits of standardization for both educators and students. Discover BSI Knowledge Our standards enable everything. However, knowing where to start when it comes to implementing them, or sharing their guidance with your staff and students can seem like a daunting challenge. With a BSI Knowledge subscription, you will have the flexibility and visibility to manage the key standards you need in order to enhance your education processes with confidence. Request to learn more.
How are innovation standards supporting the education sector?
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How are innovation standards supporting the education sector?

Innovation in education is a fast moving field. Accelerated by the experiences from the COVID-19 pandemic and fusing technology with government agendas, top talent, driven founders, accessible capital, and inclusivity, the sectors that have typically lagged are being radically transformed.  The education sector has transformed almost overnight. In the classroom, university careers services, micro accreditations, and MBA programs are now available on platforms built with a digital-first approach and supported by innovative education standards, such as BS ISO 29994:2021 Requirements for distance learning. The role of innovation standards Innovation in business has become integral for not only the effective operation of a business but for its actual survival. As a result, there has been more importance assigned to innovation than in today’s environment. Innovation standards play a crucial role in de-risking investment and accelerating the adoption of new technologies through confidence in performance. At BSI, our experts are at the global forefront of standardization in areas with the potential to transform the economy and our society. Innovation standards are critical in the commercialization of new technologies within the education sector, building trust, and supporting the creation of new markets at home and internationally. To read more on the benefits of standards to your education organization, click here. Key innovation standards for education There are several key standards that support innovation in education: BS EN ISO 9001  BS EN ISO 9001 is the internationally recognized Quality Management System (QMS) standard that can benefit any size of education organization. Designed to be a powerful business improvement tool, this standard can help your business to: Continually innovate, streamline operations and reduce costs. Win more business and compete in tenders. Satisfy more customers. Be more resilient and build a sustainable business. Show you have strong corporate governance. Work effectively with stakeholders and your supply chain. BS ISO 21001 BS ISO 21001 is primarily a standard of the management process for administering large and complicated educational organizations.  This standard focuses on how an organization goes about its work by providing a common management tool for organizations providing educational products and services capable of meeting learners and other customer requirements and needs. BS EN ISO/IEC 27001  BS EN ISO/IEC 27001 Information security management system (ISMS) is an excellent framework that helps organizations manage and protect their information assets so that they remain safe and secure. Protecting your information assets in the Education sector has never been of greater importance.  In the wake of COVID-19, technology has enabled education providers and learners alike to cope with the enormous challenge of remote learning. Standard BS ISO/IEC 23126:2021, specifies a framework to describe and organize learning resources in ubiquitous learning. The global shift to online learning has come with the need for education organizations to advance their cybersecurity processes, to protect the data of their students and educators alike. Standard BS EN ISO/IEC 27001 helps your business do just that. It also helps you to continually review and refine the way you do this, not only for today but also adapt for future innovations.  BS EN ISO 14001  BS EN ISO 14001 Environmental management system (EMS) standard provides guidance on how to consider multiple aspects of your education business so that it can innovate its processes to reduce its impact on the environment. It also drives you to evaluate how you manage emergency response, customer expectations, stakeholders, and your relationships with your local community. Depending on how your education organization operates today, this may not require a lot of change beyond documenting what and how you do or it may mean a number of changes that can result in a more efficient business, cost, or waste reductions and give stakeholders peace of mind. Prepare your education business for the challenges of tomorrow by adding these key standards to your collection today.

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