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The Awarding Bodies - ITEC

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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International Therapy Examination Council, better known as ITEC, is a leading international specialist examination board. They provide qualifications in the following sectors:

  • Beauty & Spa Therapy
  • Hairdressing
  • Complementary Therapies
  • Sports & Fitness Training
  • Customer Service

History and Structure

ITEC has been awarding qualifications since 1947. It is one of the world's largest specialist awarding bodies.

The Council works with more than 650 colleges and educational institutions across the world. They have offices London, South Africa and Asia Pacific. They also have representation in Ireland and the United States of America.

ITEC offers colleges and learners one of the largest Beauty and Hairdressing qualification portfolios. This includes qualifications for employability as well as specialist subjects. In addition, they offer skills enhancement and continuing professional development courses.

International Qualifications

ITEC is an international examination board. It operates in over 38 countries worldwide offering a variety of qualifications

Their international qualifications are available in six sectors:

  • Customer Service and Business & Administration
  • Beauty
  • Hairdressing
  • Complementary
  • Sport
  • Teaching and Lecturing
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