# The Further Education Teachers' Qualifications (England) Regulations 2001, 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—
(a) a person who is employed to teach courses of higher education only, and
(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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/1209/regulation/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/further-education-teachers-qualifications-england-regulations-2001/regulation-2
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