Article 18 Fitness to teach

(1)

The GTCS—

(a)

must investigate the fitness to teach of any individual seeking registration; and

(b)

may investigate any registered teacher’s fitness to teach where it becomes aware of circumstances which it considers justify such an investigation.

(2)

The GTCS must—

(a)

refuse to register any individual seeking registration whom it considers to be unfit to teach; and

(b)

remove from the register any registered teacher whom it subsequently considers to be unfit to teach.

(3)

An individual is “unfit to teach” for the purposes of this Order if the GTCS considers that the individual’s conduct or professional competence falls significantly short of the standards expected of a registered teacher (and “fitness to teach” is to be construed accordingly).

(4)

Schedule 4 makes further provision regarding individuals’ fitness to teach.