Further Education Teachers' Qualifications (England) Regulations 2001
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 2001/1209 |
| Year | 2001 |
2001 No. 1209
EDUCATION, ENGLAND
The Further Education Teachers' Qualifications (England) Regulations 2001
Made 26th March 2001
Laid before Parliament 28th March 2001
Coming into force 1st September 2001
In exercise of the powers conferred on the Secretary of State by sections 218(1)(b) and (10)(aa) and 232(5) and (6) of the Education Reform Act 19881, the Secretary of State for Education and Employment hereby makes the following Regulations:
Citation and commencement
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Further Education Teachers' Qualifications (England) Regulations 2001 and shall come into force on 1st September 2001
Interpretation
2. 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 19992.
Relevant teachers to have qualifications
3.—(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) a relevant teacher (at an institution in England or Wales);
(b)
(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)
(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 19923;
(d)
(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 19974
(e)
(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...
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