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Seanad: Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2012)

Ciarán Cannon: That applies only to the VEC sector which has a role in primary and post-primary provision. The other entities listed do not have such a role; therefore, the provision does not apply to them.

Seanad: Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2012)

Ciarán Cannon: No.

Seanad: Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2012)

Ciarán Cannon: These amendments delete references from sections 40 and 47 to the implementation of procedures for access, transfer and progression. Under section 50, providers are compelled to implement procedures for access, transfer and progression; therefore, it is not necessary to repeat the requirement in the other sections.

Seanad: Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2012)

Ciarán Cannon: As indicated in the discussion on section 39, there is no obligation on previously established universities to have their programmes validated by the authority, although they may apply for validation if they so wish. If a previously established university was to apply for validation, it is reasonable that the appeal procedures that apply to all providers would also apply to them. As the...

Seanad: Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2012)

Ciarán Cannon: The amendment inserts a new subsection that will give the authority flexibility in determining standards of knowledge, skill or competence to be acquired by learners. The authority will be able to determine different standards for different awards or classes of award.

Seanad: Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2012)

Ciarán Cannon: I wish to inform Senators that there may be a need to introduce an amendment on Report Stage to clarify the authority's power to make awards jointly with other awarding bodies.

Seanad: Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2012)

Ciarán Cannon: The amendment is of a technical nature to clarify that subsection (3) refers to providers listed in subsection (2).

Seanad: Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2012)

Ciarán Cannon: The amendment inserts a new subsection to allow providers listed in subsection (2) which are not either relevant or linked providers to establish procedures for quality assurance and access, transfer and progression, as if they were a relevant provider. The amendment is necessary to allow such providers, if they are not relevant or linked providers, to comply with the conditions under which...

Seanad: Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2012)

Ciarán Cannon: These amendments are technical in nature to clarify that the subsection relates to providers listed in subsection (2).

Seanad: Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2012)

Ciarán Cannon: The amendment is technical in nature to clarify that procedures under section 46 apply when the authority is determining a request for delegation of authority to make an award. Amendment agreed to.

Seanad: Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2012)

Ciarán Cannon: This is a minor technical amendment to link subsection (4)(a)(iv) to (4)(a)(v) on the following page.

Seanad: Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2012)

Ciarán Cannon: These are technical amendments to clarify that the directions issued by the authority following a review of procedures for access, transfer and progression apply to the particular provider concerned.

Seanad: Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2012)

Ciarán Cannon: Withdrawal?

Seanad: Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2012)

Ciarán Cannon: It is to ensure the institutions allow learners to move through the different levels of the national qualifications framework without having to refer constantly to the NQAI to provide for that progression process.

Seanad: Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2012)

Ciarán Cannon: Exactly.

Seanad: Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2012)

Ciarán Cannon: This is a minor amendment to allow the authority to specify the manner in which an annual charge for use of the international education mark may be paid.

Seanad: Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2012)

Ciarán Cannon: I am aware of the issues to which the Senator refers. He is quite correct in ensuring we have the very highest standards in place in our English language providers' schools and also that these schools secure and win the trust of international students. That is critical. This amendment proposes to reduce the period of review from three years to two years. The three-year period that we are...

Seanad: Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2012)

Ciarán Cannon: This amendment clarifies the provisions relating to the protection of enrolled learners that apply where a learner has paid money or has had money paid on their behalf to a provider for a programme of education and training even where the learner has not begun the programme. This is important in ensuring that protection is extended to all learners who have paid fees to a provider.

Seanad: Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2012)

Ciarán Cannon: We have an effective international education unit operating in the Department of Education and Skills which is constantly liaising with its partners internationally - I had an opportunity to visit a number of those partners recently - and concerns raised at those meetings are acted upon immediately. We have very strong links with the embassies based in Dublin and we liaise with the...

Seanad: Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (29 Mar 2012)

Ciarán Cannon: This is a minor technical amendment.