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Active NFQ Standards for Higher Education
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The NFQ’s major award-type descriptors are default standards for HE awards. These ‘generic standards’ apply in the absence of more specific NFQ awards standards.

The current list of standards, both generic and specific, includes:

​Architecture - Awards Standards

​Architectural Technology - Award Standards

​Art and Design - Award Standards

​Business - Award Standards

​Computing - Award Standards

​Counselling and Psychotherapy – Awards Standards

Engineering - Award Standards

​English Language Teaching - Awards Standards ​

​Generic Major Awards - Awards Standards  

Pre-Higher Education Foundation Awards for International Students 

​Nursing and Midwifery - Awards Standards

​Professional Master of Education – Award Standard

​Provisional Standards for LLB and LLM Degrees  

​Science - Award Standards

​Social Care Work - Awards Standards

               
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​HE Award Standards