Our Evaluation Model
If you wish to become a new QQI provider, you must apply to QQI for evaluation and approval of your corporate fitness, QA procedures, any proposed programme of education and training and/or compliance with the Code of Practice for Provision of Programmes of Education and Training to International Learners.
Under this process, you will be required to:
- Develop application documentation with reference to relevant QQI published policies and guidelines.
- Check that your application meets QQI criteria via a self-evaluation form.
- Put your application through your own governance structures for approval before submission to QQI.
- Submit the required documentation to QQI using QHub, our online portal.
Once we have received these, we will then:
- Check the application to ensure it is complete.
- Select a panel of experts to evaluate the application and produce a report of their findings, including a recommendation, to inform a decision by QQI.
- Share the panel report with the provider and invite a response.
- Ask our governance committee to review the panel report and the provider’s response and make a decision to approve or refuse to approve the application.
- Publish the panel report and the provider’s response.
- Facilitate an appeal by the provider of a decision not to approve the application, if requested.
