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Article: Accreditation and certification for chemical technologists.(RECOGNITION
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- Canadian Chemical News
- Article date:
- January 1, 2009
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The Canadian Society for Chemical Technology (CSCT) has been involved in the accreditation of college programs and the certification of individuals for over 15 years. Although these are two distinct activities they do complement one another.
In 1998, the CSCT signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Canadian Technology Accreditation Board (CTAB). With this collaboration and support, chemical programs across Canada have been reviewed and improved by meeting the chemical discipline criteria. Accredited chemical related programs are listed below.
As of January 1, 2008, new National Technology Benchmarks (NTB) were created and deployed. These new NTB's ...