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The Awarding Bodies - Institute of Project Management Ireland

Awarding Bodies are organisations that are authorised to make postgraduate awards, certification, or award qualifications.

Listing Awarding Bodies

Postgrad.ie lists all of the awarding bodies in Ireland, the UK and abroad. Most major postgraduate awards are made by bodies with statutory powers, but there are also many professional organisations that make their own awards in relation to postgraduate study. While courses and educational programmes in Ireland lead to qualifications from Irish awarding bodies, it sometimes be the case that courses lead to non-Irish awards, for example awards from international bodies, or national awards from other countries.

Certain Irish institutions are both providers of courses and programmes and also awarding bodies for postgraduate certification in their own right: these are the Irish universities and the Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT).

An award is an academic qualification (degree, diploma or certificate) conferred in recognition of the successful completion of a higher education programme of study, either at undergraduate or postgraduate level, and issued by a designated awarding body. The National Framework of Qualifications sets out the criteria for major and non-major awards. Non-major awards include, minor awards, special purpose awards
and supplemental awards.

Major awards are the principal class of awards made at a given NFQ level and reflect a significant volume of learning, e.g. Honours Bachelor Degree (NFQ, Level 8), Master Degree (NFQ, Level 9), Doctorate Degree (NFQ Level 10).

In Ireland, following the changes in the qualifications system as a result recent legislation, the number of statutory bodies has been reduced as the new awards councils FETAC and HETAC have assumed the the awarding functions previously fulfilled by several other Irish organisations such as the National Council for Educational Awards (NCEA), National Council for Vocational Awards (NCVA), Solas, Teagasc, the National Tourism Certification Board (CERT) and Bord Iascaigh Mhara.

Postgrad.ie lists all of the awarding bodies giving postgraduate certification in Ireland and the UK below.

Institute of Project Management Ireland was founded in 1990. They promote education, certification and member services in project management.

The Institute offers access to the two most highly rated professional accreditation bodies: IPMA and PMI-USA. They do this through certifying programmes from both bodies.

About IPMA

IPMA is the International Project Management Association. Founded in 1965, IPMA is the world’s first professional project management association. The IPMA competency-based Four-Level Certification System for programme and project managers is unique in the world, and widely recognised for its quality.

About PMI

PMI, the Project Management Institute, is the world’s largest not-for-profit membership association for the project management profession.

PMI has a globally recognised standards and certification programme, extensive academic and market research programs, chapters and communities of practice, and professional development opportunities.

Courses available through Institute of Project Management Ireland include:

  • IPMA Certified Project Management Diploma
  • IPMA Strategic Project Diploma
  • PMP Passport Course
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