Effective this month, Canada’s National Quality Institute will no longer offer auditor certification. The organization, which is Canada’s leading nonprofit quality training and recognition organization, reports that it wants to focus its energies on personnel certification and administration of the annual Canada Awards for Excellence program. The CAE can be compared to the Baldrige Awards in the United States.

NQI and RABQSA announced last spring a partnership to allow organizations registered to standards by NQI to also become registered to one or more of RABQSA’s certification schemes. That arrangement is now over, reports Catherine Neville, NQI vice president for personnel certification.

“During this past year, while working with RABQSA International, NQI has been reviewing its other programs,” says Neville. “It has been concluded that to optimize our contribution to organizational excellence in Canada... it makes good sense to focus our personnel certification energies on the certification of excellence professionals. We would like to wish RABQSA International every success as they work to provide optimum and comprehensive certification services to auditors in Canada and worldwide.”

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