The purpose of the IHA is to create a process through which the quality of homeopathy education can be evaluated by course providers against agreed criteria.
Each criterion contributes to the overall assessment of whether a course will produce graduates of sufficient competence to practise as an independent professional homeopath and meet the standards for registration.
The aim of IHA is three-fold:
• to put in place an agreed set of standards as a benchmark for all course
providers
to assess themselves against,
• to ensure that learning programmes produce safe and competent practitioners,
• to be seen as developmental, so course providers seek to continually improve their
services in line with resources available and external needs and expectations.
The IHA seeks to establish standards and promote quality and is not intended to encourage standardised programmes across the UK. Rather it is about setting baseline criteria for courses that aim to produce independent professional homeopaths and developing a process for self-assessment of courses against these criteria that is valid and reliable.