156 Mr. O’Dowd asked the Minister for Education and Science her views on fact that two third level science programmes (details supplied) will be delivered at Dundalk Institute of Technology in the academic year 2006-07; the way in which Dundalk Institute of Technology, which has received delegation of authority from HETAC to validate its own courses, can allow such a deception of leaving certificate students and their parents given that these courses have not been processed through the institute’s own academic quality assurance procedures; if the circumstances will be addressed where current food science students at Dundalk Institute of Technology, who were recruited, in the current academic year, to what they were told was a bachelor of science in food and health but who find they are attending a certificate in food science whose exact title is a matter of debate and whose content is not validated; the steps she will take to assure current and future students of Dundalk Institute of Technology that programmes and courses offered by the institute will in future be validated by faithful application of the institute’s own academic quality assurance procedures. [7537/06]

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156 Mr. O’Dowd asked the Minister for Education and Science her views on fact that two third level science programmes (details supplied) will be delivered at Dundalk Institute of Technology in the academic year 2006-07; the way in which Dundalk Institute of Technology, which has received delegation of authority from HETAC to validate its own courses, can allow such a deception of leaving certificate students and their parents given that these courses have not been processed through the institute’s own academic quality assurance procedures; if the circumstances will be addressed where current food science students at Dundalk Institute of Technology, who were recruited, in the current academic year, to what they were told was a bachelor of science in food and health but who find they are attending a certificate in food science whose exact title is a matter of debate and whose content is not validated; the steps she will take to assure current and future students of Dundalk Institute of Technology that programmes and courses offered by the institute will in future be validated by faithful application of the institute’s own academic quality assurance procedures. [7537/06]

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