Ms Ginny Hanrahan:

I will start then. We have approved 73 courses. We have had three courses which have withdrawn and two have reapplied. We work very closely with the education providers. The best way we can protect the students is to ensure the standards required and that the graduates will come off these courses with the right level of skills, confidence and knowledge.

This is not paying lip service. We have one course where we have had 107 individual contacts, meetings and emails, whatever, with the institution to help get that course over the line. From a CORU point of view, that is the best way we can protect the students, that is, to work very closely with the providers.

I talk about our setting minimum thresholds. Most of the courses we regulate are beyond those courses and I have great confidence in the students coming off those courses. The best way we can satisfy students coming on to these courses is by working with the providers to ensure the courses are approved. To date, we have not unapproved any course.