The Awarding Bodies - Excellence Ireland Quality Association (EIQA)

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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Excellence Ireland Quality Association (EIQA) is the Irish National Quality Association. EIQA is responsible for Q Mark certification. The Q Mark programmes are Quality Management System frameworks.

About the Q Mark

The Q Mark for Quality Management Systems is a business excellence framework. This framework reviews all aspects of an organisation on an annual basis. More than 30,000 organisations throughout Europe use the Q Mark framework.

The Q Mark brand currently holds 13 programmes. Companies in Ireland and internationally use these widely.

In addition, EIQA provides a comprehensive portfolio of quality training courses to businesses. Their specialist subjects include:

Hazard analysis and critical control points (HACCP)
Food Safety Training
Internal Auditing
Food Safety Law

EIQA delivers their open training programmes in-company or at their premises.

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