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.
The Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland (NMBI) approves education programmes for nurses and midwives. The NMBI plays a pivotal role in the education of nurses and midwives in Ireland.
Education courses
Undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in nursing and midwifery in Ireland’s 14 Higher Level Institutions (HEIs) must comply with the standards and requirements set down by NMBI.
Continuing Professional Development
NMBI approves shorter courses. These include Continuing Professional Development (CPD) courses. These are run in a variety of hospitals, health care settings and other settings. In addition, these are increasingly run online. Nurses and midwives who complete such courses can enhance their learning across a wide range of specialities. This allows them to earn Continuing Education Units (CEUs).
NMBI works in collaboration with stakeholder bodies. As a result, they ensure that nurse and midwife education programmes achieve a high standard. One such collaboration is with HSELand, the Health Services Executive online portal. HSELand offers online learning programmes, resources, assessment and planning tools that support health care professionals. NMBI have had a role in developing some of the course materials for nurses and midwives.
