The Awarding Bodies - Royal Institute of the Architects 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 Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland develops and supports architectural education. The Institute’s educational activities fall into two principal strands: education for the profession and education for the public.

Responsibilities

The Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland helps to maintain high standards of professional practice by:

Setting standards of knowledge skill and competence for practice
Monitoring standards of admission to the profession
Accrediting architectural and architectural technology courses
Carrying out examinations in professional practice and in architectural technology
Supporting continuing professional development for architects and architectural technologists
Monitoring changing requirements for architectural education and training

Accreditation

One of the RIAI’s most critical tasks is the accreditation of courses and qualifications in architecture and architectural technology. The purpose of accreditation is to ensure that the skills and the standard of performance attained by students graduating from a programme are adequate with regard to the design, technical and professional skills and ethical formation required for competent architectural practice. The accreditation process involves an objective assessment of the programme, including the curriculum, assessment and actual learning outcomes achieved by graduates.

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