SAS Education Strikes Gold

SAS Education has been awarded the Institute of Information Technology Training's coveted Gold Standard Accreditation, the highest level given by the organisation. The IITT was founded in 1995 to develop and promote excellence within the IT training profession. SAS Education had to pass a rigorous external audit to achieve this accolade. Rob Tillier, Senior Consultant with the IITT's accreditation team, commented, "The team at SAS continues to be highly focused on the provision of a professional IT Training service to the staff and customers of SAS business intelligence software and solutions. The team is to be congratulated on the very high standards that they not only maintained, but also continue to build upon."

Nick Houlton, Head of Customer Services at SAS UK, was delighted by the recognition and praise SAS had earned from the world's first professional body for IT training professionals. He said, "This is a further endorsement of the quality of our courses and staff. For our customers it is also an endorsement of the trust and confidence that they have invested in SAS Education, and in our ability to help them move their organisations forward."

Nick emphasised the credibility that the IITT has won within the industry. "The Institute's Accreditation Programmes for training providers are raising organisational standards throughout the IT training sector: more than 75 percent of the UK's IT training market by volume is now supplied by IITT-accredited providers.

"However, few of these have yet attained the Gold Standard, and to my knowledge there are no other organisations offering SAS training that have received this accolade."

Find out more about the IITT at http://www.iitt.org.uk