National College of Ireland

Part of the obligatory external QA system
QQI: Institutional quality monitoring and review
  • DEQAR Report ID
    117711
  • Agency
    Quality and Qualifications Ireland (QQI)
  • Type
    • Institutional quality monitoring and review (*)
  • Status
    part of obligatory EQA system
  • Formal decision
    not applicable
  • Date
    21/05/2025
  • Valid until
    not applicable
  • Summary

    Report summary

    ​External Quality Assurance Review of National College of Ireland (NCI) ​​ ​ ​
    ​External Quality Assurance Review of National College of Ireland (NCI) ​​ ​ ​...
  • Notes
    External QA Review of National College of Ireland (NCI)
  • Report and decision
  • Permalink
    https://data.deqar.eu/report/117711
  • Agency's identifier
    No. 23
  • Verifiable Credential
  • Education provider

Verifiable Credentials

A Verifiable Credential (VC) is a digitally-signed and thus tamper-evident document containing information on a subject (e.g. personal information, entitlements of an individual, degrees held by an individual or accreditation of a higher education institution). Quality assurance results recorded in DEQAR can be downloaded as W3C-compatible Verifiable Credentials.

Currently, two types of credentials can be issued:

EBSI Verifiable Accreditations (VA) can be used by a higher education institution in the context of the EBSI Early Adopters programme.

  • The VA allows the institution to prove its external quality assurance on the Trusted Issuer Registry (TIR). EBSI VAs are only issued for external quality assurance results with an official status in a national system (“part of obligatory EQA system”).
  • At present, the higher education institution’s EBSI DID needs to be communicated to EQAR and recorded in DEQAR manually at the moment. If you are a higher education institution participating in EBSI, please contact us to register your DID.
  • EBSI VAs are issued by EQAR under its DID did:ebsi:zk4bhCepWSYp9RhZkRPiwUL.

DEQAR Format Verifiable Credentials primarily serve as a proof of concept and public demonstrator currently.

  • DEQAR Format VCs are based on the plain W3C Recommendation and our own data model. While they closely follow the EBSI Schema, no EBSI-specific or EU-specific elements or data types are used.
  • The higher education institution is identified by its DEQAR URI in this case.
  • DEQAR Format VCs are issued by EQAR under its DID did:web:data.deqar.eu.

Please note: this is an experimental feature.