Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 25 April 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills

The Future of STEM in Irish Education: Discussion (Resumed).

Dr. Peter Cullen:

As an awarding body for further education and training, QQI determines standards for qualifications. It is quite influential in shaping the FET offering. In higher education, it is a completely different picture. By and large, institutions themselves determine what they are going to do and QQI is not involved in the detail of that at all. In further education, we published, I think in 2020, a Green Paper on the future of the qualification system looking at, among other things, where the FET sector is going in terms of how qualifications are governed. Among the different questions that we posed is whether the current approach is a bit over-centralised and whether a more distributed approach is required. That is where we are at the moment. We are thinking about where to go next in terms of a strategy for the FET qualification system. Does that-----

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