Seanad debates

Thursday, 29 March 2012

Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) Bill 2011: Committee Stage

 

1:00 pm

Photo of Ciarán CannonCiarán Cannon (Galway East, Fine Gael)

The Bill, as initiated, makes provision throughout for providers to make representations to the authority on a number of different matters such as: refusal by the authority to approve proposed quality assurance procedures; withdrawal by the authority of approval of quality assurance procedures; withdrawal of programme validation; determination of request for delegation of the authority to make an award; withdrawal or variation by the authority of delegated authority to make award; withdrawal by the authority of approval of access, transfer and progression procedures; and review by the authority of a provider's compliance with code of practice and the provider's use of international education mark.

A technical amendment is proposed to all of the sections mentioned above, to replace the term "representations" with the term "observations" throughout the Bill to remove any implication that these observations would be made through third parties.

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