The Awarding Bodies - Irish Training and Education Centre

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.

The Irish Training and Education Centre (ITEC) was established in the late 1990s as a distance learning college. They now offer a variety of learning options. ITEC now delivers education through:

Distance learning
eLearning
Classroom attendance
Blended learning, which combines both classroom and distance or eLearning modules

Accreditations

Irish Training and Education Centre offers a number of courses validated by Quality and Qualifications Ireland (QQI). QQI– formerly FETAC – is the state agency responsible for the quality of further and higher education and training. QQI validates programmes. They also make awards for certain education providers.

ITEC provides study programmes and courses for a variety of individuals. This includes anyone seeking a career change, hoping to widen their career opportunities or enhance their skills. The Centre also has courses for people who wish to set-up their own business or who own or manage a business.

In addition to QQI accredited courses, ITEC also offers general and self-interest courses as well as hobbies and craft skills programmes.

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