The Awarding Bodies - ACELS

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 Accreditation and Coordination of English Language Services (ACELS) is a legacy function of Quality and Qualifications Ireland (QQI). They are the national body responsible for the development and management of English Language Teaching organisations (ELTOs) nationally.

History of ACELS

The Service was established in 1969 under the auspices of the Irish Department of Education & Science. It controls standards in English Language Teaching (ELT) schools and organisations. The Service does this through an inspection and recognition scheme. The organisation publishes a list of recognised ELTOs annually.

All recognised ELTOs may carry the following legend: Recognised by ACELS, a service of Quality and Qualifications Ireland, for English language teaching.

Teacher requirements

To teach English in a recognised ELTO a teacher must have an NFQ level 7 (ordinary bachelor degree or equivalent) and a recognised ELT award.

The following are the awards recognised by the Service:

CELT
CELTA
Trinity ESOL
NUI ELT Certificate

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