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The Awarding Bodies - University of Limerick

Awarding Bodies are organisations that are authorised to make awards, certification, or award qualifications.

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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.

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The University of Limerick offers undergraduate, postgraduate, continuing professional education, research and other educational programmes. UL is 5 kilometres from Limerick city centre, along the River Shannon.

The University is an active participant in the European Union's Erasmus programme. UL has over 200 partner institutions in 24 European countries. In addition, UL students may study at partner universities in the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, China and Singapore.

History of UL

The University of Limerick was established in 1972 as the National Institute for Higher Education, Limerick. It became a university by statute in 1989.

In the 1960s, an improving economy, foreign direct investment into Ireland and the need for advanced expertise lead to the creation of the National Institute for Higher Education (NIHE) at Limerick. The NIHE was to follow the model of Europe’s new technological universities.

The World Bank financed the project. The Institute hired faculty and staff from around the world, and NIHE had extensive teaching and research facilities. These attracted an influx of foreign investment.

In 1977, the government required NIHE Limerick to apply for recognition as a Recognised College of the National University of Ireland. Students and staff strongly opposed this. The Institute withdrew from the NUI. Through legislation, NIHE Limerick became an independent institution. From 1978 to 1988, the National Council for Educational Awards was the degree-awarding authority for the NIHE Limerick.

Awarding rights

In 1989, NIHE Limerick became the University of Limerick through legislation. UL was the first new university in the history of the Irish State. UL was granted powers to award its own degrees.

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Education - Special Education

Mary Immaculate College
Limerick
The course runs from September to May of the following year and involves block release from school for designated periods (a total of eight weeks), and four weekends (Friday evening, Saturday).

This programme, which is organised by the Department of Special Education, is for Learning Support teachers, Resource Teachers, LS/RTs, teachers in Special Schools, qualified teachers…

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