The Awarding Bodies - ECDL

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

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.
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The European Computer Driving Licence (ECDL) is a computer literacy certification programme. It is a globally recognised information and communication technology (ICT) and digital literacy qualification.

The qualification is provided by ECDL Foundation, a not-for-profit organisation.

About the ECDL Foundation

The Foundation is an international organisation. They focus on raising digital competence standards in workplaces, schools and society. Their certification programmes enable people and organisations to become more competent with computers and digital tools.

They appoint partners around the world to implement their programmes. These partners work to strictly defined standards. Consequently, the programme is consistently implemented across the globe.

The Foundation works with a number of different organisations. First of all, this includes communities as well as local and regional authorities. In addition, they work with national governments. Finally, the Foundation works alongside international bodies such as the United Nations and other international non-governmental organisations. These relationships are key to the delivery of its ICT skills certification programmes.

Fast Facts

ECDL Foundation’s certification programmes have been delivered to:

  • over 14 million people
  • in 41 languages
  • across 150 countries
  • through a network of over 24,000 test centres
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