News Releases
1 March 2010, Internationalisation Register
From 1 March 2010, the National Qualifications Authority of Ireland, on behalf of the Department of Education and Science, administers the Internationalisation Register, which lists the education and training programmes approved for the purpose of access to employment by students who are citizens from outside the EU/EEA and Switzerland.
From that date, all applications for inclusion of a course on the register will be processed by the NQAI. Further details are available from this link.
22 February 2010, SECCOMPAT - EQF and Compatibility of the Sectoral Qualifications between Countries
The National Qualifications Authority of Ireland was a partner in a Leonardo da Vinci project under the EU Lifelong Learning Programme Key Activity 1. The project, which was titled "SECCOMPAT - EQF and Compatibility of the Sectoral Qualifications between Countries" explored how the EQF can assist with the comparison of sectoral qualifications between partner countries. The SECCOMPAT project concluded in January 2010 and the final report on the project is available here.
Interactive Fan, 20 February 2010
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25th January 2010, The University sector Framework Implementation Network was established in December 2007
It has just published a report on the first phase of its activities titled University awards and the National Framework of Qualifications (NFQ): Issues around the Design of Programmes and the Use and Assessment of Learning Outcomes.
