Regulation 2 Interpretation

In these Regulations—

• “Certificate of Education” means a qualification known by that name awarded by an institution within the higher education sector;

• “relevant teacher” means a person employed as a teacher (whether or not the post in which the person is employed is described as a teaching post) in an institution within the further education sector other than—

  1. (a)

     a person who is employed to teach courses of higher education only, and

  2. (b)

     a person whose primary occupation or profession is not teaching and who is employed by the college on a temporary or occasional basis to provide updating on current industrial, commercial or professional practice,

• “stage 3 FE teaching qualification” means a qualification the standard for which appears to the Secretary of State to be approximately equivalent to a certificate of education and which is specified by the Secretary of State for the purposes of these Regulations;

• “stage 1 FE teaching qualification” and “stage 2 FE teaching qualification” mean respectively introductory or intermediate stages of the stage 3 FE teaching qualification the standards for which are specified by the Secretary of State for the purposes of these Regulations;

• “stage 1 post” and “stage 2 post” mean part-time teaching posts for which a stage 1 or stage 2 FE teaching qualification, as the case may be, is, in the opinion of the institution which employs the teacher, an appropriate qualification;

• “stage 3 post” means a teaching post for which a stage 3 FE teaching qualification is, in the opinion of the institution which employs the teacher, an appropriate qualification;

• “1999 Regulations qualification” mean a qualification such that the holder is a qualified teacher within the meaning of regulation 10 of the Education (Teachers' Qualifications and Health Standards) (England) Regulations 1999^f1.