The Awarding Bodies - Pharmaceutical Society of 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.

The Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland plays an important role in assuring high standards of education and training in pharmacy. The PSI is responsible for the accreditation and approval of educational programmes. Most noteworthy, this includes the three Bachelor pharmacy degree programmes in Ireland the Masters in Pharmacy degree.

PSI Accreditation

The PSI’s role includes ongoing recognition and accreditation of pharmacy degree programmes. In addition, they assess of applications from new schools of pharmacy.

The Pharmacy Act 2007 made accreditation of pharmacy degree programmes a requirement. Therefore, it is the PSI's to review the education and training provided by each of the three schools of pharmacy. It does this within a five-year period. Pharmacy degree programmes are assessed against the PSI’s approved accreditation standards. Consequently, the PSI assures consistency across the pharmacy degree programmes in Ireland. the The Council of the PSI accredits new and existing programmes.

The PSI and continuing professional development

The PSI ensures that registered pharmacists undertake appropriate continuing professional development (CPD). Since 2007 CPD is mandatory for pharmacists in Ireland. As a result, all pharmacists must complete a declaration on an annual basis that they undertake to ‘maintain appropriate experience in the practice of pharmacy, keep abreast of continuing education and professional developments in the profession of pharmacy and undertake appropriate continuing professional development relevant to the practice of pharmacy'.

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