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Image:Higher Education and Training Awards Councilpng
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1972
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Dublin , Republic Of Ireland
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Chief Executive
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Séamus Puirséil
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Chairperson
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Prof Ciaran Murphy
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Denzille Lane<br/>Dublin 2
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+353-1 631 4567
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http://wwwhetacie
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The ('''HETAC''') is the legal successor to the ''National Council for Educational Awards'' and awards and awards qualifications at many
Institutes Of Technology and other independent colleges.
The ('''NCEA''') was founded in 1972, on an ad-hoc basis and awarded the first
National Certificate s that year at five
Regional Technical College s. Early on it was decided that the NCEA would be the only extra-university conferring institution in the State at
Higher Education rather than having a multitude of competing institutions. During the 1970s this caused some trouble as
Fine Gael -
Labour (
National Coalition ) government attempted to limit the NCEA to subdegree awards only, later
Fianna Fáil government of 1977 restored the full powers and placed the NCEA on a statutory footing in 1980 by the
National Council for Educational Awards Act, 1979 .
Traditionally many of the awards of the NCEA and HETAC have being at the Institutes of Techology, many of these were at National Certificate and National Diploma level. Currently HETAC awards are in a transition phase, and it will discontinue granting some awards and has defined and introduced new awards to replace them.
The providers of awards which lead to HETAC awards are called "recognised institutions", and they are recognised under the
Qualifications (Education & Training) Act, 1999 (Section 24) . Some of these institutions may have "delegation of authority" or "delegated authority" which allows them to make HETAC awards in their own name, this is currenly limited to the Institutes of Technology and is often limited to certain award levels at institutions.
