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Registrars from around the world met at the annual gathering of the International Confederation of Registers of Exercise Professionals (ICREPS) to explore how existing registers can continue to work together to ensure the mapping of standards, portability of qualifications and registered status and to promote the concept of exercise registers to other countries.

The ICREPs’ partners – REPs UK, REPs New Zealand, REPs Australia, REPs South Africa, REPs Ireland and EREPs – work with emerging registers to support them and forge reciprocal working agreements between national registers.

REPs’ Registrar Jean-Ann Marnoch said: “The mapping of standards means members of national registers, like REPs UK, are able to have their qualifications and registration status recognised by other

Increasing global recognition for members

members of ICREPs when moving around the globe. This latest meeting, which took place in March, saw the completion of the mapping of South African standards to the UK and vice versa.

“While attending the International Health, Racquet and Sportsclub Association (IHRSA) Convention, the ICREPs’ partners delivered sessions on the benefits of establishing a register and the global template standards (written by SkillsActive) which can be used by emerging national registers.”

“We also spoke to training providers in countries where no register exists, with a view to their programmes

Catherine Carty (REPs Ireland), Stephen Gacsal (REPs New Zealand), Jean-Ann Marnoch (REPs UK), Richard Beddie (REPs New Zealand), Craig Knox (REPs Australia), Scott Schreuder (REPs South Africa).

being mapped to the global template standards to provide recognition of their graduates in the ICREPs partner countries. In particular we met with training providers from the US and Hong Kong who wanted to explore the possibility of mapping their courses.”

“While all this may seem far removed from the day to day working lives of our members, it all leads the way to increased recognition of their professional status around the world – and increased portability of qualifications.”

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The REPs Journal 2012;24(May):5-7