The Awarding Bodies - Limerick Institute of Technology

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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Limerick Institute of Technology (LIT) is a member of the Institutes of Technology Ireland (IOTI). The Institute has a number of campuses including three in Limerick, two in County Tipperary and one in Ennis, County Clare. The main campus is located at Moylish Park on the north of Limerick city.

History of the Limerick Institute of Technology

The Limerick City Vocational Education Committee (VEC) founded LIT in 1975. It began as one of Ireland’s Regional Technical Colleges. In 1980 the VEC established Limerick College of Art, Commerce and Technology. This included the newly established Limerick School of Art and Design, the School of Professional Studies and the Limerick Technical College at Moylish Park.

Accreditation

LIT offers courses at Level 6 (certificate) through Level 10 (PhD). It also caters for craft apprentices as well as adult and continuing education. The Institute awards its own Bachelors, Masters and Doctorate degrees. The Higher Education and Training Awards Council previously awarded these.

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