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Standards improve quality, facilitate School affiliation & Instructor renewal

Standards
07 Jul 2016

 

 

Read carefully these important updates applicable either from now or from September 2016.
 
What’s effective now?
 
  • School affiliation – special cases - See Article 9
  • General liability accepted in some specific countries like Brazil, Mexico and more.
  • Rescue boat from third party accepted and rescue boat not required in some location after approval of IKO training department.
  • Become Instructor Level 2 with at least 35 students/280 teaching hours - See Article 24
  • Become Instructor Level 2 Senior with at least 100 students/800 teaching hours. -See Article 29
  • Become Coach through 5-day Coach Course - See Article 35
  • Instructors expired for up to 2 years can attend an Instructor Equivalency Course (IEC) - See Article  57

 

Starting September 2016
 
  • Introducing new 5-day Assistant Instructor Course (AITC Plus) - See Article 19
  • Instructor Level 2 Senior renamed Instructor Level 3 - See Article 28
  • New 5-day Assistant Trainer Training Course (ATTC) that qualifies new Assistant Trainer to train up to 8 Assistant candidates simultaneously - See Article 43

 

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