National University of Ireland

Basic information


National External Quality Assurance Requirements

  • Institutional reviews
    The aim of review is to provide an independent external review of the institution’s own internal quality assurance procedures.
  • Programme validation
    Not required for eight universities together with the Dublin Institute of Technology and Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, which have degree awarding powers i.e. the possibility to validate and award their own qualifications
  • Delegated authority to make awards
    will exempt education providers to undergo an external programme validation procedure.
  • Focused reviews
    may lead to withdrawal of approval of a QA procedures. The procedures is invoked if there are reasons for concern with a particular higher education provider.
  • Further information on external quality assurance in Ireland

External Quality Assurance Reports and Decisions

Institutional level

Institutional evaluation, University College Cork
Part of the obligatory external QA system
Institutional quality monitoring and review, Maynooth University
Part of the obligatory external QA system
Institutional quality monitoring and review, University of Galway
Part of the obligatory external QA system
Institutional quality monitoring and review, University College Dublin
Part of the obligatory external QA system
Institutional quality monitoring and review
Part of the obligatory external QA system
Institutional quality monitoring and review, University College Cork
Part of the obligatory external QA system
Institutional quality monitoring and review, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland

Programme level

Decision: positive Joint programme
International Humanitarian Action (NOHA+) (second cycle degree)
Decision: positive with conditions or restrictions Joint programme
Redesigning the Post-Industrial City (second cycle degree)
Decision: positive
School of Veterinary Medicine (degree)
Decision: positive with conditions or restrictions Joint programme
Superdiversity in Education, Organisations and Society (second cycle degree)