The Awarding Bodies - British Psychological Society

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 British Psychological Society promotes excellence in psychology. The Society and its members develop, promote and apply psychology for the public good.

Duties and responsibilities

The British Psychological Society enhances the efficiency and usefulness of psychologists by setting high standards of professional education and knowledge. They do this by:

Providing a Directory of Chartered Psychologists
Providing information to the public
Ensuring high standards of education, training and practice
Increasing the awareness and influence of psychology
Supporting our members’ professional development
Providing conferences and events
Publishing
Setting standards in psychological testing
Maintaining and developing the History of Psychology Centre

The British Psychological Society offers potential students information on how to become a psychologist, studying, work experience tips and changing your career. They list accredited courses and training programmes.

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