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Article 5 School teachers' prescribed qualifications, etc

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The following kinds of education and the following circumstances (or both) are prescribed for the purposes of section 122(5)(b) of the Act —

(a)

education provided by —

(i)

an assistant teacher at a nursery school, or

(ii)

a teacher of a nursery class,

who was permitted to be employed as a teacher by paragraph 4 of Schedule 4 to the 1982 Regulations and was so employed before 1st September 1989;

(b)

education provided by a person who is not a qualified teacher which consists of instruction in any art or skill or in any subject or group of subjects (including any form of vocational training) in circumstances where —

(i)

special qualifications or experience or both are required for such instruction,

(ii)

the local education authority (in the case of a school which has no delegated budget or a pupil referral unit), the governing body acting with the consent of the local education authority (in the case of a school which has a delegated budget), or the governing body (in the case of a special school not maintained by a local education authority) are satisfied as to his qualifications or experience or both, and

(iii)

no suitable qualified teacher, graduate teacher, registered teacher or teacher on an employment-based teacher training scheme is available for such instruction;

(c)

education provided by a person who was granted a licence under the provisions of Part II of Schedule 2 to the 1993 Regulations, as they applied before amendment by the Education (Teachers) (Amendment) (No.2) Regulations 1997f1; and

(d)

education provided by a person aged over 18 years who either —

(i)

has been accepted for admission to a course of initial teacher training at an accredited institution in England or Wales, and is awaiting admission to that course, or

(ii)

has been admitted to such a course but has failed satisfactorily to complete it by the date at the end of the period ordinarily required therefor, but during the next year following that date is continuing the course with a view to so completing it within that year.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1

S.I. 1997/2679.