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Vocational Education CommitteeA Vocational Education Committee (VEC) are committees in the Republic of Ireland that have charge of vocational schools, certain colleges and previously had authority over the Dublin Institute of Technology and the Regional Technical Colleges until 1992. The committee system was created by the Vocational Education Act, 1930 and amended many times since. Dublin Institute of Technology and the Regional Technical College system was a particularly prestigious part of the Vocational Education Committee system until 1992 when the colleges were separated from the committees. Since this time the committees have expanded into adult education and further education. Organisation The Vocational Education Committee system is to a large extent based on the traditional counties and cities of Ireland. Their is also a provision for towns to have their own independent committees, Dn Laoghaire is the only town that has its own committee, this is due to the fact that the town was once a municipal borough with its own "corporation", this status is no longer the case since the abolition of the Corporation of Dn Laoghaire however the committee remains. Also County Tipperary has two committees, North Tipperary and South Tipperary in line with local government boundaries. The towns of Bray, Drogheda, Sligo, Tralee and Wexford originally had their own committees, however these where amalgamated into the county committees in those areas where they resided in a reform of the sector in 1998. External link
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