Welcome at the International Education Society (IES) – a non-profit organisation specialising in the certification of educational institutions within the international Certificate Project and in the certification of teachers of all types of schools, as well as other lecturers. IES certifies universities, colleges, secondary schools, grammar schools, vocational training schools primary schools, language schools and educational agenciesGraduates from these schools can receive an international certificateregularly issued in English and in translation into the official language. The international certificateis accepted worldwide. IES has already issued more than 28.000 international certificates, which have been used by their holders not only in European countries but also in the USA, Canada, Australia and Asia.  

 

IES Profile

 

The International Education Society (IES, London) was established in 1997 and in a relatively short period of time it has become the largest institution specializing in the certification of various types of educational institutions.

All IES activities are guided by an endeavour to develop domestic and international cooperation between educational institutions and entities from the economic and business sphere.

IES was founded as a follow-up organization of the European Union´s YOUTH programme. This programme was established under the guidance and with the financial help of PHARE in 1993 - 1996 as a collective project of Great Britain, Poland, Ireland and the Czech Republic. The YOUTH programme was coordinated by OUVERTURE headquarters in Glasgow and methodical help was provided by the ECOS-OUVERTURE office in Budapest. As a part of the YOUTH programme, problems in connection with the success of graduates from various types of educational institutions in the job market were monitored. The outcome of this research suggested, amongst other things, that one of the main drawbacks was the absence of an international document - certificate - enabling the bearer to achieve better results in job searching in the international and domestic job markets, providing employers with relevant information, which is usually not included in a school report or another certificate. On the basis of this information, the Certificate Project was established.

The main activity of IES is the implementation of the Certificate Project. Within this project educational institutions and their educational programmes are evaluated and certified. A secondary IES activity is the establishment and operation of professional internet databases (www.skoly.cz)

The registered office of the International Education Society, Ltd. is in London, Great Britain, where it is registered under No. 5209753. The client centre and the management of IES reside in the Czech Republic (Brno). This organization unit is registered at the Regional Commercial Court in Brno, Reg. No.: Division A, file No. 17230.

 

Certificate Project

 

The aim of the Certificate Project is to unify the criteria for describing particular educational institutions and their educational activities. IES certifies educational institutions and their educational programmes. The standard output of the certification are internationally comparable certificates that clearly and explicitly declare where and what the student studied and to what extent. The certificates also specify the standard of the lecturers of the particular educational programme. IES describes the current level of the educational institution and its products by means of international certificates. IES does not describe quality, as the quality of an educational institution is not an unambiguous and precisely defined term and an understanding thereof depends on the expectations of the future graduate, employer etc. For its reason IES describes the situation only on the basis of precisely defined criteria.

The most important information about the International IES Certificate is a codecomprising six items (1.continent, 2.state, 3. rating of the educational institution, 4.content of the educational programme, 5. rating of the lecturers of the particular educational programme, 6.identification number under which the graduate can be found in the IES database).

The International IES Certificates are usually issued in English and in translation into the official language. Information about the international certificates issued to individual graduates is published on the internet on this website under the link "Issued certificates”. This is for easy and swift verification of the authenticity of the issued certificates. IES regularly informs the Chambers of Commerce of all European countries about the Certificate Project. The information about the certified educational institutions, their programmes and graduates is kept in the IES database for a minimum of 20 years. Upon the request of the certified institution, IES also informs any number of institutions about the certification performed.