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The Awarding Bodies - CIPD

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

Listing Awarding Bodies

Courses.ie lists all of the awarding bodies in Ireland, the UK and abroad. Most major awards are made by bodies with statutory powers, but there are also many professional organisations that make their own awards. 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 / programmes and awarding bodies in their own right: these are the Irish universities and the Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT).

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.

Courses.ie lists all of the awarding bodies in Ireland and the UK below.
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The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) is the professional body for HR and people development.

About the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development

CIPD has more than 140,000 members worldwide. They set the benchmark for excellence in people and organisation development. The Institute set professional standards and provides the expertise to drive the HR and L&D professions forward. In addition, they conduct research. They are independent, not-for-profit and hold a Royal Charter.

About CIPD Ireland

Based in Dublin, CIPD Ireland has more than 5,000 members across seven regional branches. They support the needs of the local HR and business communities.

The Irish branch of the Institute was founded in 1937 and is a member of the following:

  • European Association of Personnel Management (EAPM)
  • European Training and Development Federation (ETDF)
  • World Federation of Personnel Management Associations (WFPMA)

Their patron is the President of Ireland, Michael D Higgins.

Qualifications

The Institute offers qualifications at Level 3 Foundation, Level 5 Intermediate and Level 7 Advanced. Students can achieve Awards, Certificates and Diplomas at each of these levels. These qualifications provide a pathway to becoming a CIPD professional member. The Advanced Level Diploma, PDS (or university equivalent) provides the knowledge to apply to become a Chartered Member or Chartered Fellow.

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