Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) (Amendment) Act 2019

Amendment of section 44 of Principal Act (Application for validation of programme of education and training)

16. Section 44 of the Principal Act is amended:

(a) in subsection (7) —

(i) in paragraph (a), by the insertion, after “section 28”, of “and those procedures address the programme for which validation is sought”, and

(ii) by the deletion of paragraph (c),

(b) in subsection (9) —

(i) by the substitution of the following paragraph for paragraph (a):

“(a) each Institute of Technology, in relation to programmes leading to doctoral degrees included within the Framework,”,

(ii) by the insertion of the following paragraph after paragraph (g):

“(h) an education and training board,”,

and

(iii) by the substitution of “that provider or, in the case of programmes referred to in paragraph (a), each such programme of the Institute of Technology concerned.” for “that provider.”.