Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 15 October 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science
Apprenticeships: Discussion (Resumed)
2:00 am
Dr. Jim Murray:
We have an arrangement with the authorities across the five jurisdictions. Qualifications can cross boundaries. We meet annually to look at that. It basically compares the frameworks across all of the different jurisdictions - Wales, Scotland, England, Northern Ireland and ourselves. It is complex because quite a lot of change takes place across the water on an ongoing basis. It is challenging to maintain comparabilities but we have to work in terms of the regulatory authorities across the five jurisdictions. We maintain that dialogue on an ongoing basis to focus on qualifications across boundaries and to work to make sure it is as painless as possible across both islands, but there are differences.
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