Education and Training Boards Ireland

What Education and Training Boards Ireland does

Education and Training Boards Ireland (ETBI), also known by its Irish name BOOÉ (Bord Oideachais agus Oiliúna Éireann), is the statutory representative body for Ireland's 16 Education and Training Boards (ETBs), established under the Education and Training Boards Act 2013 and registered as an Irish charity (RCN: 20206586). Headquartered in Naas, Co. Kildare, ETBI operates with approximately 153 staff and provides centralised governance, HR, legal, procurement, ICT, buildings, and professional development support to ETBs that collectively run over 270 post-primary schools, Further Education and Training (FET) centres, Community National Schools, Music Generation programmes, and youth work services across Ireland.

ETBI's core offerings are educational rather than technology products: it develops and disseminates curriculum frameworks such as the multi-belief Goodness Me, Goodness You! (GMGY) primary curriculum and the ETBI Patrons' Framework on Ethos (2022), and in 2026 co-launched the Aitheantas Framework with Educate Together. It delivers services through local ETBs (16 regional entities), supplemented by digital channels including the Let's Talk Ethos podcast, an ETBI Video Gallery, the FET Digital Library, the iVET transition-year programme, the Instructional Leadership programme for school leaders, and recurring conferences and publications. No proprietary technology platform, API, SDK, or AI/ML capability is identified in the source material.

ETBI is government-funded and operates as a non-profit public-sector body; services are free at the point of use and pricing is not commercially disclosed. Its revenue derives from Irish state allocations (primarily via the Department of Education and SOLAS), with no venture funding, M&A activity, or commercial pricing tiers. Distribution is anchored by the 16 regional ETBs acting as direct service delivery arms, with secondary reach via website, newsletters, conferences, podcasts, and social media for stakeholder engagement with educators, parents, and learners.

Name

Education and Training Boards Ireland

Legal name

Education and Training Boards Ireland

Website

https://etbi.ie

Company type

Private

Founded year

2013

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

Education and Training Boards Ireland (ETBI) is the statutory representative body for Ireland's 16 ETBs, coordinating multi-denominational primary, post-primary, further education and training, and youth services nationwide from Naas, Co. Kildare, funded by the Irish government.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Public Education Services

NAICS

Educational Support Services (611710), All Other Schools and Instruction (61169), Educational Services (611)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

Comprehensive ECE Curriculum Frameworks (Birth–5) (EDACAJAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

In-Service Professional Development (Workshops/Institutes/Short Courses) (EDACAIAB), Domain-Specific Curriculum (Literacy, Numeracy, Science, SEL, Motor, Arts) (EDACAJAB)

Keywords

• Education governance services
• Further education training
• Vocational training programmes
• Community education
• Youth services

Headquarters

HQ city

Naas

HQ country

Ireland

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

ETBI is the representative body for Ireland's 16 Education and Training Boards (ETBs), coordinating education delivery and providing governance support, educational frameworks (such as the ETBI Patrons Framework on Ethos), professional development, and advocacy. Its portfolio spans Community National Schools (primary), Community Colleges (post-primary), Further Education and Training (FET) including apprenticeships, Music Generation, Youth Work Services, and curricula such as the Goodness Me, Goodness You! (GMGY) multi-belief curriculum.

Product overview

Education and Training Boards Ireland (ETBI) is a representative body for Ireland's 16 Education and Training Boards (ETBs), which together form the largest provider of education services in Ireland outside of the primary and secondary school sectors managed by other bodies. The organization does not offer a single unified technology product but rather coordinates a portfolio of educational services across multiple domains: primary education through Community National Schools (currently 27 schools across 8 ETBs), post-primary education through Community Colleges, Further Education and Training programmes including apprenticeships and vocational certificates, music education through Music Generation, and youth work services including the UBU Your Place Your Space programme. Key curriculum offerings include the Goodness Me, Goodness You! (GMGY) multi-belief and values curriculum for primary schools and the ETBI Patrons Framework on Ethos. The organization also provides professional development through the Instructional Leadership programme and digital content through the Let's Talk Ethos Podcast and Video Gallery. These services are delivered through local ETBs rather than as a centralized technology platform.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Goodness Me, Goodness You! (GMGY): A multi-belief and values curriculum developed for Community National Schools in collaboration with children, parents, teachers, local ETBs, ETBI, the Department of Education and Skills, and the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment.

Products and services

• Community National Schools Multi-denominational primary schools under ETB patronage providing education from junior infants to 6th class with an inclusive, values-based ethos. There are currently 27 Community National Schools under the patronage of 8 ETBs.
• Community Colleges

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• SOLAS: Ireland's national FET authority that funds, plans, and oversees the Further Education and Training sector operated through 16 ETBs; directly adjacent in mandate and is the principal funding/strategy counterparty to ETBI, making it the closest comparable in scale and remit.
• Educate Together: Multi-denominational school patron operating a growing network of primary and second-level schools across Ireland; competes directly with ETBs in the patronage/ethos market and is a co-development partner of ETBI's Aitheantas Framework, making it the most directly comparable operating peer.
• Cathedral/Bishop's Diocesan Education Offices (e.g., Catholic Education Service): Network of Catholic diocesan education offices acting as patrons of Ireland's largest group of primary and post-primary schools; directly comparable as alternative patronage bodies competing with ETBs for parental patronage in the same Irish school market.

Broad incumbents

• Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA): UK agency responsible for funding education, training, and apprenticeships for learners post-16; analogous role to SOLAS in another jurisdiction and provides a comparable public-sector funding/oversight model for further education.
• Skills Development Scotland: Scotland's national skills body coordinating training, apprenticeships, and career-information services across the FET/college sector; analogous function to a combined SOLAS+ETBI model in a neighbouring UK jurisdiction and a useful scale benchmark.

Regional players

• Higher Education Authority (HEA): Statutory body in Ireland responsible for higher-education funding, policy, and governance; analogous in function to ETBI but operating in the tertiary-education tier, providing a comparable model of centralised strategic oversight within the same Irish education ecosystem.

Others

• National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NCCA): Statutory Irish body that advises the Minister on curriculum and assessment across early childhood, primary, and post-primary; co-developed the GMGY curriculum with ETBI and works closely on curricular policy, making it a key ecosystem partner and quasi-regulatory peer.
• Cedefop (European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training): EU agency supporting vocational education and training policy across member states; indirectly comparable as a supra-national coordinator shaping the policy environment in which ETBs deliver FET, and a peer in coordinating curriculum frameworks at scale.
• Quality and Qualifications Ireland (QQI): Ireland's national qualifications and quality-assurance body for further and higher education and training; sets external authentication and credentialing standards that ETB FET provision must comply with, making it a regulatory peer shaping ETB operations.

Emerging players

• Association of Colleges (AoC): UK representative body for further education and sixth-form colleges; mirrors ETBI's role as the central coordinator and advocate for an ETB-style further education network, though ETBs operate at larger and more statutory scale.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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M&A

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