QQI Awards standards

As an awarding body, QQI makes awards to learners who have demonstrated through assessment that they have reached or exceeded the standard for an award. This makes standards an essential part of the awarding system.

The awards standards we determine apply to our own QQI Awards and those made by providers to whom we have delegated authority.

The lifecycle of an award standard consists of four stages:

Development
Consultation
Review
Deactivation

Award types

Essential reading

Generic Major Awards Standards

Generic Standards - Special Purpose, Supplemental and Minor Awards

Science

Business

LLB and LLM (Provisional)

Computing

Professional Award Type Descriptors

Counselling and Psychotherapy

Art and Design

Social Care Work

English Language Teaching

Engineering

Nursing and Midwifery

Pre-Higher Education Foundation Awards for International Students

Professional Master of Education

Architectural Technology

Architecture

The Common Awards System (CAS) is an evolving system of awards at NFQ Levels 1 to 6 that aims to support learner mobility and ease the recognition of prior learning.

Explore our listing of CAS Awards here