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For a number of years since it's founding,
the BSG was active only in the US and, to some extend, in
Canada. EUBSA BV Inc. then started offering courses also in
Europe, starting in the early 1990's. In these "early years", we
only trained BSG/EUBSA staff; we did not offer courses to non-BSG
participants. About 10 years ago, EUBSA started offering courses
to a relatively broad public and we developed a number of new,
exclusive courses up to the range of courses of today.
Between 2002 and 2006, EUBSA cooperated
with other institutions, but in order to tighten security and
cut down on admin and red tape, we decided by November 2006 to
handle all courses through the BSA directly, with again new
courses and even better possibilities for our students. Due to
some new laws and regs in some countries, we adapted our courses
to meet requirements, such as SITO/SIA, US International
Standards Organization for the Security Industry or other,
similar regulations. Globalization makes a much more
international approach necessary, than any local laws, but since
in some areas only staff with an official license may operate at
some locations, we needed to react to these circumstances, and
we did.
Ever since the start of the EFFACT
programme,
we have been using training facilities in Oregon and Washington
State, later on in Idaho, as well as in Israel. Once we started
to offer courses in Europe, we started to build up facilities in
Europe, too, with main focus on France. Since 2006, we
additionally run a facility in South Africa.
Courses
- Overview
Our various
Study
Courses, unlike many other courses on the open market, are
COMPREHENSIVE and COMPLETE training and study concepts. They
include a complete training from scratch. They should be
regarded as STUDY courses (with very few exceptions), rather
than mere training courses. That is to day that our courses are
on a college level, rather than just physical training sessions.
You cannot expect to learn a profession through courses with
duration from only a couple of weeks up to maybe 3, 4 months.
It's simply not realistic to really think that such short
courses would suffice to learn a dangerous profession with many
responsibilities which may include taking care of other people's
life.
To give you an example of what we mean:
there are some courses available to train to be an
"investigator". Now OUR goal is to train students to the best
possible level - our model for this particular profession is the
police, the FBI in particular. The basic FBI academy takes about
16 weeks to pass. But do you think for a private course, 4
months training are sufficient? Think again: no FBI cadet will
learn all there is to learn within these 16 weeks. Crime scene
training (up to certification as Crime Scene Expert) ALONE can
take up to 3 months of training in high-level police
departments. We want to offer the best possible training
available on the private market. This means we need to include
the COMPLETE training for our students. This, however, is simply
not possible in just a few months, let alone a few weeks.
As a further example, we'd like to refer
to our "PII" course (Professional International Investigator).
This is a 2 year course on the highest level, including the
total training programme up to criminal detective, crime scene
expert and private investigator. There is no other private
programme of this kind available with this content, any where.
We select a maximum 20 students each from America and Europe per
year, as we believe that is about the number per year that the
market needs. It would be unwise to train more PII per year,
knowing we can't employ them. We are fully convinced that the
PII is the very best private training programme of its kind. But
this cannot be realized within 10, 12 weeks or even less- as
other training schools pretend and actually offer.
Our courses
include the necessary studies (theory), training sessions
(seminars), internship phase (in order to gain hands-on
experiences) and each graduate will be employed upon completion
of a course. Our students not only receive the (in our own eyes)
best possible private training available, but also a built-in
career option within EUBSA/BSG - with a number of international
position within top level security. We do NOT mainly concentrate
on the run-of-the-mill PSD work - this means: we are not so much
involved in guarding premises and such like (yes, EUBSA does
offer that kind of service and we do guard premises, but not
MAINLY) or convoy or force protection jobs. You might find
well-paid jobs of that kind with other companies, but you will
probably also already know that such jobs have a short half-life
period, maybe 4-6 months, and you will need to start chasing
jobs again soon, plus at a certain point in your life you will
start getting too old for that kind of life. EUBSA operates
differently or rather in different areas of security, much less
exposed, and a lot more covert and NOT so much as your regular
PMC/PSD company. To check for details on our company, please go
to
www.eubsa.com
and
www.recruitment.eubsa.com
Thus, the
right moment to consider a FULL training for a career with MORE
options than just sticking your neck out on the front line for
others
IS NOW.
Our study courses take some time to complete but they do offer
you a true career with various options, a broader perspective
for your life. If you read the details on our various study
courses, you will easily understand the total possible range of
the different security areas we are dealing with as a security
company. The BSG is a global security network with at present
about 500 authorized partners in some 50 countries. This allows
us to operate at any location worldwide, low-profile, quickly,
under various names as not to expose our name and company etc.
All our graduates will be offered a career option within our
network. There are people saying, this sounds just too good to
be true... - the whole secret behind this guarantee is that,
unlike MOST other training institutes, we only train as many
students per year, as we know we will be able to employ directly
in any given year. That is one of the big differences between
BSA/EUBSA and others.
The study phase (theory) of each course
(where applicable) will be in the eLearning or distance learning
format.
Find out more about distance learning.
The
total duration of the study phase ranges between 6 - 20 months,
depending on the kind of course chosen. There is ample direct
support via forums, e-mail contact to a tutor etc. You thus do
not need to study on your own, but you CAN study in your own
time, at your own pace. Each course also includes training
seminars, with duration between 1 and 6 weeks, again depending
on the course chosen. You will be able to choose from various
dates, each course will be offered twice per year. You will thus
be very flexible time-wise. Courses take place in the US, Europe
and South Africa, with the main focus on the facilities in
France (this is due to the very strict immigration regs in the
US for non-US citizens).
Certificates
We do
NOT
offer any state certificates; we are not affiliated with any
association outside the BSG. We DO, however, include training to
our students to be able to pass state or federal examinations
(e.g. to obtain local licenses, if that is necessary or wanted),
but such training will be offered by certain authorized, local
BSG partners; this makes sense, since these partners are on the
ground within the applicable jurisdiction in the various
countries, meeting with the official standards required by the
local official agency. The student will then take the exam
necessary before the board of exam of the local agency involved.
Other than that, please be aware that our certificates are meant
to be BSG internal certificates.
We operate this way because we KNOW for
certain that many “official” standards are too low. They are low
in order to offer a way into security jobs for persons with less
than academic capabilities. From a political standpoint, this
might be ok; in order to make more jobs available for unemployed
people who can't find other jobs. Many people (including in
governments and companies!) think that many security related
tasks can be done by just about ANYONE... and that's why certain
security jobs are being so badly paid. We DO NOT think that way.
That is why our courses are much different and much more
comprehensive and we DO have some requirements and we will NOT
admit just about anyone to our courses. We are doing that in
order to RAISE THE LEVEL OF EXPERTISE AND PROFICIENCY of our
graduates and staff. Since we offer a different and much more
comprehensive training programme, there is no official agency
taking exams for our courses. The official level more often than
not simply is not high enough. That is why we needed to
start offering our own certificates; if a student needs to take
an additional official exam, e.g. in order to obtain a local
license, we'll simply help him or her in doing so through one of
our local and authorized BSG partners.
Also, our main goal still is to EMPLOY all
of our graduates. We are an internationally very active security
company, not just a training institute. We have hundreds of
clients worldwide. We want to offer these clients the best
possible service. Since we are convinced that our training and
study courses are amongst the very best, we have every interest
to keep our graduates on board after they completed the course.
That is why we WANT to employ our own graduates. Now, as in
every other large security company, we will prefer employing our
own students rather than students from any other training
institute. Other security companies will require their people to
take their own courses, too. Apart from the “official” exams and
licenses (as explained above), there are no worldwide or even
nationwide by each employer or client fully acknowledged
certificates outside university certificates, comprising the
complete kind of training we offer.
You need to know about this and take it into consideration. If
your aim is to get a government job, and you need an officially
acknowledge certificate, you may want to go for a state or
government accredited college or university. You will still NOT
get the kind of training we can offer you, but you will get an
acknowledged certificate. Does that sound paradox? Yes, we
know... But that the way it is. On the other hand, we do not
recognize most non-BSG certificates either and won't employ
applicants with just that "official" standard, because most of
those kind of certificates included a training of only 3, 4months or less,
which in our eyes simply does not suffice.
We realize all this sounds complicated and absurd - but there
are politicial and economic reasons behind this illogic
situation which has been created that way by powers beyond our
own sphere of influence. The truth is: there is no "official plan" for the BEST kind of
private training, only for a MINIMAL standard.
That is the secret behind this paradoxon.
Our certificates are
·
BSA-Associate's Degree - most basic level
·
BSA-Bachelor's Degree - (undergraduate)
- a medium degree, albeit on very high level; this is the
standard degree of most of our staff
·
BSA-Master's Degree - "graduate level" -
highest degree we offer at this time
The BSA is a private, fully independent
institution, US based but operating internationally. We do not
depend on government contracts or affiliated corporations, thus
we are politically independent and much less effected by
political fall-out. The crisis and scandals certain other
security contractors are involved in do not concern our company.
When the tide will turn (and one day soon it will), and Middle
East contracts die and fade away, we will not be affected as
much as others, since we never focussed so much on that region
and operate on many different areas of security worldwide. Of
course this means, at the same time, that our certificates and
courses are not being government sponsored or accredited, and
it's probably easy to understand why (e.g. we don't bow to
certain people and politics and they have other “partners” for
certain reasons); but within the large international BSG
network, our own capabilities and markets are big enough to
compensate for that and we think that it would require a step
down the quality ladder if we tried to play according to certain
other peoples rules and games.
The decision what each of our students
requires and wants must be made by each of them individually.
However, we are convinced that we are able to offer some of the
finest study courses in the world. Compare for yourself. We are
happy to discuss that matter with you any time.
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