Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology

National External Quality Assurance Requirements

Institutional reviews
The aim of review is to provide an independent external review of the institution’s own internal quality assurance procedures.
Programme validation
Not required for eight universities together with the Dublin Institute of Technology and Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, which have degree awarding powers i.e. the possibility to validate and award their own qualifications
Delegated authority to make awards
will exempt education providers to undergo an external programme validation procedure.
Focused reviews
may lead to withdrawal of approval of a QA procedures. The procedures is invoked if there are reasons for concern with a particular higher education provider.
Further information on external quality assurance in Ireland