Completion of 2025 Quality Dialogue Meetings with ETBs
The final visit to Louth and Meath Education and Training Board in Drogheda on Tuesday 18 November marked the completion of QQI’s series of Quality Dialogue Meetings for 2025. Having begun the journey in June, QQI staff were pleased to wrap up a very successful itinerary that saw them traverse the country, through rain and shine, visiting all 16 education and training boards (ETBs).
The meetings, which were held on campus for each of the institutions, provided an important forum for honest discussion, reflection, and strategic planning. Forming a key part of QQI’s quality monitoring function, they offered an opportunity to hear of the ETBs’ progress and quality enhancements since the inaugural review. They also provide a channel for these institutions to share current updates, challenges and opportunities within further education and training and to discuss new initiatives from QQI.
This year, conversation topics included:
- Devolved responsibility and QQI’s upcoming pilot project.
- Data management and data-driven decision making
- Developments in standards and awards
- Innovation and best practices in the ETBs
- QA enhancement and continuous improvement
- Learner voice and learner engagement
- Academic integrity and GenAI
- Staff professional development
- Collaborative practice
Quality dialogue meetings are coordinated by members of the Tertiary Education Monitoring and Review unit, but their success is due to the cross-organisational participation from units across QQI.
We look forward to continuing this collaborative approach in the months ahead through the newly formed Sectoral Working Group, where topics pertinent to the ETBs will be discussed with key stakeholders.
