www.hea.ie  -    Higher Education Authority -Information on Higher Education and research in Ireland. Includes links to universities and other colleges, European programmes such as Erasmus and Tempus.

www.hetac.ie - Higher Education and Training Awards Council - HETAC awards qualifications at all levels of higher education and training up to PhD level.

HETAC’s main functions include:

Setting standards for higher education and training awards 

Validation of higher education and training programmes

Monitoring of institutional quality assurance procedures

Delegation of awarding powers to recognised institutions

Ensuring that student assessment procedures are fair and consistent

Ensuring that arrangements are in place in commercial education and training institutions to protect learners where programmes validated by HETAC cease to be provided.

www.fetac.ie -   FETAC - Further Education and Training Awards Council -  is the national awarding body for  further education and training in Ireland. 

www.nqai.ie –  The National Qualifications Authority of Ireland is the Irish centre for the recognition of international qualifications, known at Qualifications Recognition – Ireland. 

www.dfes.co.uk – If your going to the UK to study this site has information about financial assistance for fees.

www.schoolbookexchange.ie

www.studentfinance.ie - This website is a convenient and user-friendly source of information on financial support for further and higher education. 

www.cao.ie –   Central Applications Office - The higher education institutions in the Republic of Ireland have delegated to CAO the task of processing centrally applications to their first year undergraduate courses.

 www.qualifax.ie -  QualifaX is Ireland’s National Learners’ Database. It is the “one stop shop” for learners. We provide the most comprehensive information on further and higher education and training courses.