Quality assurance

Our service commitment

Acting fairly and impartially

We aim to:

  • Ensure a fair and transparent process for accreditation
  • Develop and maintain units and qualifications for all learners in the credit and debt management area which are QCF accredited.
  • Provide assessment which is valid and marked in a standardised way.
  • Ensure access and equality of opportunity while safeguarding the integrity of the qualifications.
  • Awards credits and qualifications achieved by learners securely, accurately and quickly.
  • Facilitate the use of ULN and the transfer of accurate information to learner records to support credit accumulation and transfer.
  • Issue certificates for the achievement of units and qualifications promptly.

Communicating effectively with you

We aim to:

  • Provide full course information and adequate notification of any changes to unit content or rules of combination.
  • Issue clear and simple forms and guidance.
  • Respond promptly to any enquiries.
  • Provide information on study options.
  • Notify you of forthcoming assessments.
  • Notify results accurately and within the published timetable.
  • Provide structured and appropriate assessment feedback.

Providing a good service

We aim to:

  • Take action to meet candidates' reasonable needs
  • Monitor the quality of provision at accredited learning providers and exam centre and encourage good practice.
  • Keep costs to the candidate to the minimum
  • Be supportive, courteous and professional.

Taking responsibility for our service

We publish annually our customer service aims and achievements.

We can provide a better service if you help by:

  • Letting us know any change to your contact details.
  • Giving us accurate and complete information.
  • Entering for assessments in good time.
  • Paying the correct amount on entry.
  • Ensuring that you are currently registered as a learner with the ICM.
  • Reading monthly Study Updates and checking the ICM website regularly.

CREDIT where credit's due

Press Release - 14 May 2013 The Institute of Credit Management (ICM) has won a prestigious industry award for encouraging better payment behaviour and raising the profile of professional credit...
Press Release - 8 May 2013 The Institute of Credit Management (ICM) and the Minister of State for Business and Enterprise Michael Fallon have published their monthly 'tip' for small businesses ...
Press Release - 3 May 2013 Figures from the Insolvency Service that show a fall in both company and individual failure are no cause for early celebration, says the Institute of Credit Managemen...
Press Release - 8 April 2013 The latest round of the ICM Credit Managers' Index (CMI - Q1 2013) has opened with opinions from credit managers being sought to help compile the most comprehensive...
Press release - 26 March 2013 MBNA and the Institute of Credit Management (ICM) have signed a ground-breaking new partnership aimed at up-skilling hundreds of employees working in the UK credit...
Press Release - 22 March 2013 The ICM has been recognised in a national Public Relations Award Programme for raising the profile of the credit management profession and highlighting the ongoing...
Press Release - 21 March 2013 The Institute of Credit Management (ICM) and the Minister of State for Business and Enterprise Michael Fallon have published their monthly 'tip' for small business...
Press Release - 4 March 2013
Press Release - 26 February 2013 The Institute of Credit Management (ICM) and the Minister of State for Business and Enterprise Michael Fallon have published their monthly 'tip' for small busin...
Press Release - 7 February 2013 The winners of the Institute of Credit Management's British Credit Awards 2013 were recognised at a glittering gala dinner at London's Hilton Park Lane last nigh...

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