Listing Awarding Bodies
Corporatetraining.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 training courses in Ireland lead to qualifications from Irish awarding bodies, it sometimes be the case that training 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 training courses 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.
Corporatetraining.ie lists all of the awarding bodies in Ireland and the UK below.
CIBTAC – the Confederation of International Beauty Therapy & Cosmetology – was established in 1977. The organisation is the education arm of the British Association of Beauty Therapy & Cosmetology. It is a not-for-profit organisation.
The Confederation develops their courses in association with government agencies and employers. As a result, they meet the needs of the beauty and leisure industry.
CIBTAC offers a wide portfolio of health and beauty courses. These include:
- Beauty therapy
- Spa
- Well being
- Diet and nutrition
- Sports therapy
- Complementary and holistic therapies
Awards and qualifications
CIBTAC offers three levels of qualification. These are:
Awards (1 to 12 credits)
Certificates (13 to 36 credits)
Diplomas (37 credits or more)
In addition, credits are awarded for the number of hours of training that is allocated to each qualification structure. One credit is approximately 10 hours of training. Therefore, any qualification with up to 130 of training is equal to up to 13 credits.
Accreditation
The Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation (Ofqual), who regulates qualifications, examinations and assessments in England and vocational qualifications in Northern Ireland accredits CIBTAC qualifications.
