# The Colleges of Education (Scotland) Regulations 1987, Regulation 25: Employment of Staff


(1) Subject to paragraphs (2) to (5) of this regulation, each governing body shall employ a principal and such other full-time and part-time staff as it may require.
(2) Subject to paragraphs (3) to (5) of this regulation–
(a) the governing body of a college shall not appoint any person to a teaching post in that college unless that person is a registered teacher; and
(b) if a person appointed to such a post after 1st September 1986 ceases to be a registered teacher, his appointment shall be terminated by the governing body.
(3) Where a person who is not a registered teacher was appointed to a teaching post before 1st September 1986, his appointment shall not be terminated on the ground that he is not a registered teacher, save as provided in paragraph (4) of this regulation.
(4) Where a person who is not a registered teacher was appointed to a teaching post before 1st September 1986 and since his appointment has become a registered teacher, his appointment shall be terminated by the governing body if he ceases to be a registered teacher.
(5) If the governing body of a college is unable to appoint a registered teacher to a teaching post it may, with the approval of the General Teaching Council for Scotland, appoint a person to such a post who is not a registered teacher, but who, in the opinion of the governing body, possesses sufficient qualifications and experience for the purposes of the instruction to be given in the post.
(6) The governing body of a college shall intimate to the General Teaching Council for Scotland the name of any person appointed to a teaching post in the college who is a registered teacher and the Council shall have the function of notifying to the governing body the removal from the register kept by them in accordance with section 6 of the Teaching Council (Scotland) Act 1965 of any name so intimated to them.
(7) In paragraphs (2) to (6) of this regulation–
“teaching post” means a post in a college being a post the duties of which include instruction of students; and for the purposes of this definition “student” means a person engaged in a course of training leading to a teaching qualification or a teacher engaged on a course of further training; and
“registered teacher” means–
(a) a person registered other than provisionally in the category of primary or secondary education by the General Teaching Council for Scotland under section 6 of the Teaching Council (Scotland) Act 1965; or
(b) a person employed to teach lecturers from further education colleges if he is registered other than provisionally in the category of primary, secondary or further education by the said Council.
(8) This regulation shall not apply to a person with specialist knowledge where he is to be employed only in imparting that specialist knowledge, such knowledge being other than the theory, methods or practice of teaching, and not in teaching a subject in which it is possible to obtain a Teaching Qualification (Secondary Education) as defined in the Teachers (Education, Training and Registration) (Scotland) Regulations 1967.
(9) In the case of St. Andrew’s College of Education no person shall be appointed by the governing body to the teaching staff unless he is approved as regards religious belief and character by the Scottish Hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church.
(10) Each governing body may require any person employed by it whose responsibility includes intromission with its funds to find such caution as it may determine for his duly accounting for his intromissions.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/309/regulation/25 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/colleges-of-education-scotland-regulations-1987/regulation-25
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