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The ISO 9000 family of quality management systems standards is designed to help organizations ensure that they meet the needs of customers and other stakeholders while meeting statutory and regulatory requirements related to a product or program.

ISO 9000 deals with the fundamentals of quality management systems, including the seven quality management principles upon which the family of standards is based.

Management (or managing) is the administration of an organization, whether it be a business, a not-for-profit organization, or government body.

Management includes the activities of setting the strategy of an organization and coordinating the efforts of its employees or volunteers to accomplish its objectives through the application of available resources, such as financial, natural, technological, and human resources.

The term "management" may also refer to the people who manage an organization.

In higher education in Canada and the United States, a course is a unit of teaching that typically lasts one academic term, is led by one or more instructors (teachers or professors), and has a fixed roster of students.

A course is usually an individual subject.

Students may receive a grade and academic credit after completion of the course.

or pupil is a learner or someone who attends an educational institution.

In Britain those attending university are termed "students".

In the United States, and more recently also in Britain, the term "student" is applied to both categories.

In its widest use, student is used for anyone who is learning, including mid-career adults who are taking vocational education or returning to university.

When speaking about learning outside an institution, "student" is also used to refer to someone who is learning a topic or who is "a student of" a certain topic or person.

Certification refers to the confirmation of certain characteristics of an object, person, or organization.

This confirmation is often, but not always, provided by some form of external review, education, assessment, or audit.

Accreditation is a specific organization's process of certification.

According to the National Council on Measurement in Education, a certification test is a credentialing test used to determine whether individuals are knowledgeable enough in a given occupational area to be labeled "competent to practice" in that area.