Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) Bill 2011
Public bill · Government · Presented
The Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) Bill 2011 would create a single national authority to oversee education and training standards, approve and review courses, recognise qualifications, and monitor how providers assess learners. It would replace three existing bodies and protect students by requiring providers to arrange transfers or refunds if a course stops, while introducing stronger safeguards for international students and a quality mark for compliant providers.
Formal long title
Bill entitled an Act to provide for the establishment of a body known in the Irish language as Údarás na hÉireann um Cháilíochtaí agus Dearbhú Cáilíochta or in the English language the Qualifications and Quality Assurance Authority of Ireland; to define its functions; to provide for the dissolution of the National Qualifications Authority of Ireland, the Higher Education and Training Awards Council and the Further Education and Training Awards Council; to repeal the Qualifications (Education and Training) Act 1999; to amend the Higher Education Authority Act 1971, the Regional Technical Colleges Act 1992, the Freedom of Information Act 1997, the Universities Act 1997 and certain other Acts; and to provide for matters connected therewith
Last updated 12 April 2018
- Minister for Education and Skills Primary
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- Second StageSeanad
- Committee StageSeanad
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- Second StageDáil
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- Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) Bill 2011 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages Seanad
- Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages Dáil
- Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) Dáil
- Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) Dáil
- Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) Bill 2011: Referral to Select Committee Dáil
- Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Second Stage Dáil
- Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) Bill 2011: Report and Final Stages Seanad
- Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) Bill 2011: Committee Stage Seanad
- Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) Bill 2011: Order for Second Stage Seanad
- Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) Bill 2011: Second Stage Seanad
- Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) Seanad
- Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) Act 2012
- An tAcht um Cháilíochtaí agus Dearbhú Cáilíochta (Oideachas agus Oiliúint), 2012
- As passed by Dáil Éireann
- As amended in Committee/Select Committee [Dáil Éireann]
- As passed by Seanad Éireann
- As amended in Committee [Seanad Éireann]
- As Initiated
- Explanatory Memorandum