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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/colleges-of-education-scotland-regulations-1987/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1987/309",
  "legislation_title": "The Colleges of Education (Scotland) Regulations 1987",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations provide for the dissolution of 4 colleges of education in Scotland and the establishment of 2 new colleges of education to take their place. The Regulations also set out the arrangements for colleges of education in Scotland, superseding the Teachers (Colleges of Education) (Scotland) Regulations 1967, the Teachers Colleges of Education (Scotland) Regulations 1981 and various amending instruments.\nPart II of the Regulations establishes two new colleges of education, namely Moray House College of Education (Incorporating the Scottish Centre for Physical Education, Movement and Leisure Studies) and Northern College of Education.\nPart III dissolves the existing Aberdeen College of Education and Dundee College of Education and provides for transfer of their staff and their property, rights and obligations to the new Northern College of Education. Part III also dissolves the existing Dunfermline College of Physical Education, Edinburgh, and Moray House College of Education and provides for transfer of their staff and their property, rights and obligations to the new Moray House College of Education (Incorporating the Scottish Centre for Physical Education, Movement and Leisure Studies).\nPart IV provides for the constitution of governing bodies to administer the 5 colleges of education in Scotland, namely Craigie, Jordanhill, Northern and St. Andrew’s Colleges of Education and Moray House College of Education (Incorporating the Scottish Centre for Physical Education, Movement and Leisure Studies). Part IV gives these governing bodies general powers for the purpose of carrying out their functions. It makes provision, together with Schedule 1, for the composition of governing bodies and regarding the appointment or election and tenure of office of governors. It provides also for the procedures of governing bodies.\nPart V sets out the functions of governing bodies, namely to administer the college of education, to provide courses of education or training for teachers and others, to undertake or promote research, to provide land, buildings and facilities necessary for these purposes, and to co-operate with other colleges and other educational bodies where appropriate.\nPart VI provides for employment of the staff required. It prescribes in particular that staff in teaching posts, who teach students who are training to be teachers or are receiving further training as teachers, must subject to certain exceptions be teachers registered under the Teaching Council (Scotland) Act 1965. This requirement does not apply to staff appointed before 1st September 1986, when this requirement was first introduced by previous regulations, unless they have become registered teachers. Part VI also gives governing bodies, with approval of the Secretary of State, a power to pay pensions, allowances or gratuities to employees who retire through age or ill-health, and who are not already covered by other pension schemes.\nPart VII makes various provisions regarding administration of colleges. It provides for the general powers and duties of the principal, for his power to suspend staff, for the discipline of students, and for the cases where students can be required to leave on academic or medical grounds. It provides, together with Schedule 2, for the constitution and functions of an academic board in each college and provides for the setting up of a students' representative council in each college.\nPart VIII provides for the payment by the Secretary of State to the governing bodies of colleges of non-recurrent grants in respect of capital expenditure and recurrent grants in respect of the administration and maintenance of colleges, and prescribes the conditions for payment of those grants.\nPart IX contains transitional provisions to ensure the transfer of property, rights, liabilities and obligations from the old to the new governing body, in the case of those colleges which are not affected by the provisions for establishment and dissolution of colleges. It revokes the previous regulations superseded by these Regulations.",
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