Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 24 January 2019

Public Accounts Committee

Special Report No. 103 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Remuneration of certain senior staff in the University of Limerick and Institute of Technology Sligo

9:00 am

Mr. Liam O'Reilly:

The university uses part of its history in terms of continuous assessment, of which UL was probably one of the early adopters. They have a similar system in the US called grade point average. It is a weighted average calculation. Typically, undergraduates would start their degree in second year. They progress from first to second year and their final result will be based on their marks for second, third and fourth year. This weighted average calculation is called a quality credit average, QCA. In the Deloitte report following the review there were some challenges over the QCA identified and this was identified as a particularly high risk. Prior to my-----

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