Standards are best practices. They describe the best way to do something. Like making a product, providing a service or managing a process. Think about the paper size A4, the 4G network, or agreements around fire safety.
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Secondary school students come into contact with standards every day, often without realizing it. Look with them for common ground in different domains and let a new world open up: through free access to the more than 40,000 standards from the NBN catalogue.
Benefits: Teachers gain an additional tool to extend thematic lessons and prepare their students for professional life.
All you need to do is connect your Smartschool to NBN's EDU portal. In this guide, we explain how to make the connection yourself after a few clicks.
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As a teacher, you can draw unlimited information from the wealth of standards that exist. But most importantly, your students will benefit from using standards in the course of their studies.
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The ULB introduces budding engineers to industry standards early on. "That way they know immediately whether their innovative ideas are in line with those standards, and we as a university offer an up-and-coming professional education," says Professor Patrick Hendrick of the Faculty of Engineering. See his full response here:
