The Awarding Bodies - CORU

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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CORU is Ireland’s multi-profession health regulator. They promote high standards of professional conduct, education, training and competence in health and social care professionals.

Duties and responsibilities

A key aspect of CORU’s role as a regulator is to protect the public by setting, promoting and enforcing high standards of professional education, training and competence.

This is done by:

Ensuring that the relevant educational bodies deliver qualifications that prepare professionals to provide safe and appropriate care
Ensuring that registered professionals keep their professional knowledge and skills up to date through continuing professional development

In order to achieve this, the Registration Board for each profession will:

Set the standard of education and training for entry to the register
Approve and monitor education and training programmes delivering this education
Set the requirements for continuing professional development (CPD)
Monitor CPD for the purpose of Registration
Foster high standards of professional education, training and competence
Safeguard the interest of the public

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