AICA publishes and versions its Curriculum Standard the same way any serious standards body does, so training partners, candidates, and employers can see exactly what changed and when.
The Curriculum Standard sets the learning objectives, assessment blueprints, and credential terms behind every AICA certification. When it changes, that affects training partners building courseware, candidates preparing for an exam, and employers relying on what a credential is supposed to mean. Rather than update the standard quietly, AICA records each version here, with a date and a plain description of what changed, so anyone can see the history for themselves.
The first published edition of the Curriculum Standard. It set out, across all six certifications, the full learning objectives, the assessment blueprints used to build each exam, and the credential terms that now govern every AICA credential: a three-year validity period from issue, CPD renewal requirements per three-year cycle (60 hours for the Executive tier, 45 hours for the Professional tier, 20 hours for the Foundation tier), and the retake policy (a 14-day minimum wait after a failed attempt, with a maximum of three attempts per 12 months).
Alongside the Curriculum Standard, v1.0 also published the Code of Professional Conduct v1.0, the ethical standard every certified holder and registered candidate is bound by. The Curriculum Standard is reviewed annually.
v1.0 is the only version published to date. AICA is a young, fast-moving standards body, and this changelog is honestly framed as the beginning of a public record rather than a padded history. There is no earlier draft version to report.
As the Curriculum Standard is reviewed and revised, each future revision will be added to this page with its own version number, publish date, and a plain-English summary of what changed and why. Nothing will be edited into v1.0 retroactively; changes will appear as new, dated entries.
The Curriculum Standard is not an abstract document. It is the basis for the six certifications AICA offers today. To see it in practice, review the certifications built on it. AICA also intends to open future revisions of the standard to input from training partners, employers, and practitioners; that process lives on the Contribute page.
Every AICA certification is built directly on the published Curriculum Standard.