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The Awarding Bodies - National University of Ireland

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 National University of Ireland (NUI) is a federal university. NUI currently comprises Constituent Universities, Recognised Colleges and Colleges of a Constituent University. Each institution within the NUI federation has its own Governing Authority. The overall Governing Authority of the University is the National University of Ireland Senate and its Chief is the Chancellor. The NUI's mission is to provide a supportive framework for its confederate institutions, to promote the objects of the University, and as a result, contribute to educational, cultural, social and economic advancement of Ireland.

NUI Constituent Universities

  • University College Dublin
  • University College Cork
  • NUI Galway
  • NUI Maynooth

Recognised Colleges

  • Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
  • Uversity

Colleges Linked With Constituent Universities

  • Shannon College of Hotel Management
  • National College of Art and Design, Dublin
  • Institute of Public Administration
  • St. Angela’s College, Sligo
  • Burren College of Art
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