The Awarding Bodies - Irish Aviation Authority

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 Irish Aviation Authority (IAA) is responsible for the management of Irish airspace, the safety regulation of Irish civil aviation and also the oversight of civil aviation security.

Responsibilities and duties

As part of their duties, the IAA is responsible for licensing aircraft and aviation personnel. This includes, amongst others, pilots, air traffic controllers and people or organisations involved in aircraft maintenance.

The Irish Aviation Authority oversees several different levels of pilot licences. These include student pilot, private pilot, and airline transport pilot. They also set examinations for pilot licences. Approved training organisations and registered training facilities carry out flight training in Ireland. Approved training organisations conduct flight training (for aeroplane or helicopter) approved by the IAA for both private and professional licences and ratings.

The licence received applies to a particular type of aircraft, such as for airplanes, helicopters or microlights.

The IAA issues licences in accordance with national legislation and European regulation.

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