Regulation 3 Relevant teachers to have qualifications

(1)

This regulation applies to every person who becomes a relevant teacher on or after 1st September 2001 at an institution in England who has not at any time before that date been—

(a)

a relevant teacher (at an institution in England or Wales);

(b)

a teacher at—

(i)

in England or Wales, a school maintained by a local education authority, a city technology college, a city college for the technology of the arts or city academy or, before 1st September 1999, a grant-maintained or grant-maintained special school;

(ii)

in Scotland, a grant aided school or school maintained by an education authority,

(iii)

in Northern Ireland, a controlled school under the authority of a local education and library board, a maintained school, a grant-maintained integrated school or a voluntary grammar school;

(c)

a teacher at an institution (in England or Wales) which, before 1st April 2001 was an external institution within the meaning of section 6(5) of the Further and Higher Education Act 1992^f1;

(d)

a teacher at—

(i)

in Scotland, a college of further education,

(ii)

in Northern Ireland, an institute of further education within the meaning of the Further Education (Northern Ireland) Order 1997^f2

(e)

an institution in the European Economic Area, the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man providing education which is equivalent to secondary or further education and which is part of the public system of education of the state or territory in question.

(2)

Every relevant teacher to which this regulation applies who at any time is employed full-time, or part-time under a contract by which the teacher is employed to work for a specified proportion of the period for which a full-time teacher is employed to work, shall, before the date determined in accordance with regulation 4(1) (if it occurs), hold

(a)

a 1999 Regulations qualification;

(b)

a Certificate of Education;

(c)

a stage 3 FE teaching qualification; or

(d)

a qualification equivalent to a stage 3 FE teaching qualification.

(3)

Every relevant teacher to which this regulation applies who is at any time employed part-time and who does not fall within paragraph (2) shall, before the date determined in accordance with regulation 4(2) (if it occurs), hold—

(a)

a 1999 Regulations qualification;

(b)

a stage 1, stage 2 or stage 3 FE teaching qualification (depending on whether the teacher is at that time employed in a stage 1, stage 2 or stage 3 post); or

(c)

an equivalent qualification to a stage 1, stage 2 or stage 3 FE teaching qualification (depending on whether the teacher is at the time employed in stage 1, state 2 or stage 3 post).

(4)

For the purposes of this regulation—

(a)

a qualification is equivalent to a Certificate of Education, or to stage 1, stage 2 or stage 3 FE teaching qualification, if it appears to the Secretary of State to be of equivalent standard to, or higher standard than, those qualifications and if it is specified by the Secretary of State for the purpose of these Regulations; and

(b)

the holder of a Certificate of Education or stage 3 FE teaching qualification shall be treated as also being the holder of a stage 2 FE teaching qualification and the holder of a stage 2 FE teaching qualification shall be treated as also being the holder of a stage 1 qualification.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: 1992 c. 13.
f2: S.I. 1997/1772 (N.I. 15).