The Irish Universities Quality Board (IUQB) was established in 2002.
The purpose of the board, which operated from 2002 to 2012, was to promote
quality assurance at
Irish universities including via institutional quality reviews, whilst the board is not specifically created by an
Act of the Oireachtas
The law of Ireland consists of constitutional, statute, and common law. The highest law in the State is the Constitution of Ireland, from which all other law derives its authority. The Republic has a common-law legal system with a written const ...
it does under take the functions of th
Universities Act 1997 (Section 35)in doing its work.
The functions of the board were passed to
Quality and Qualifications Ireland
Quality and Qualifications Ireland (QQI; ga, Dearbhú Cáilíochta agus Cáilíochtaí Éireann) is the national agency responsible for qualifications in Ireland. It was established by the Oireachtas in 2012 following the amalgamation of the N ...
on 6 November 2012.
References
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External links
www.iuqb.ie(Archived)
Education in the Republic of Ireland