Mr. Gordon Clark:

International learners are foreign students coming to Ireland. As members may know, the introduction of a code of practice was first proposed to be the function of a body called Education Ireland and then to be a function of Enterprise Ireland. Now responsibility for the establishment of a code of practice and an international education mark has been assigned to the new Qualifications and Quality Assurance Authority of Ireland. Providers will be able to apply for this international education mark based on their compliance with the code of practice. They have to agree their quality assurance and access, transfer and progression procedures with the authority in order to apply for an international education mark. This is about students coming to Ireland. They are also our criteria for the Minister for Justice and Equality who has indicated that learners coming to Ireland from outside the European Union will only receive student work concessions if the course they are attending is provided by a provider which has achieved the mark.