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The Higher Education and Training Awards Council ('''HETAC''') is the legal successor to the ''National Council for Educational Awards'' and grants and grants qualifications at many Institutes Of Technology and other colleges. The National Council for Educational Awards ('''NCEA''') was founded in 1972, on an ad-hoc basis and granted 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, with authority to grant awards at all academic levels including degree level. 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 . AWARDS HETAC has recently completed the transition from awards derived from the NCEA standards to a new awards system based on the National Framework of Qualifications. A rough correspondence between the awards of the two systems is shown below. PROVIDERS The providers of courses 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" (often referred to as "delegated authority") which allows them to make HETAC awards in their own name, this is currently limited to the Institutes of Technology and is often limited to certain award levels at institutions. Section 24 (1)(a)
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