International Developments and Recognition Agreements
The Qualifications Recognition service provides recognition of foreign qualifications in Ireland and provides information on the Irish education and training system to other countries.
Some of the work to support this is outlined below:
- Comparing qualifications in Ireland and the UK
- Recognition Agreement between Ireland and China
- Compatibility of Qualifications in Ireland and New Zealand
- Comparison of the Qualifications Frameworks in Ireland and Australia
- Recognition of awards made in Ireland by foreign awarding bodies
- The ‘Bologna Process’
- The European Qualifications Framework for Lifelong Learning (EQF)



