Teaching and Higher Education Act 1998

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Jurisdiction	UK Non-devolved
Citation	1998 c. 30
Year	1998

Contenidos

Teaching and Higher Education Act 1998
Part I: The teaching profession

The General Teaching Council for Wales: aims and constitution

1: Aims and constitution of the Council

Functions of the General Teaching Council for Wales

2: Advisory functions of the Council.
3: Registration of teachers.
4: Regulations relating to registration.
4A: Appeals against refusal of registration
5: Code of practice for registered teachers.
6: Disciplinary powers of Council in relation to registered teachers.
6A: Power to promote teaching profession
7: Additional and ancillary functions of Council.

Establishment of The General Teaching Council for Wales

8: Establishment of The General Teaching Council for Wales.

Functions of the General Teaching Council for Wales

9: Functions of General Teaching Council for Wales: general.
10: Further functions of General Teaching Council for Wales in relation to teachers.

Supplementary

11: Registration requirement for teachers at schools.
12: Deduction of fees from salaries, etc.
13: Consultation about qualified teacher status.
14: Supply of information relating to teachers: general.
15: Supply of information following dismissal, resignation, &c.
15A: Supply of information by contractor, agency, &c.

The General Teaching Council for Scotland

16: Duty to have regard to needs of disabled persons.
17: Representation of special educational needs teachers on General Teaching Council for Scotland.

18: Qualifications of head teachers.
Induction periods : teachers in Wales

19: Requirement to serve induction period.

Inspection of teacher training institutions

20: Inspection of institutions training teachers for schools.
21: Inspection of institutions training teachers for schools: Scotland.

Part II: Financial provision for higher and further education

Student support

22: New arrangements for giving financial support to students.
23: Transfer or delegation of functions relating to student support.
23: Transfer or delegation of functions relating to student support.
24: Supply of information in connection with student loanssupport.
25: Transitional arrangements.

Student fees

26: Imposition of conditions as to fees at further or higher education institutions.

Higher education funding

27: Expenditure eligible for funding.

Supplementary

28: Interpretation of Chapter I.

29: Grants and loans: Scotland.

30: Supply of information in connection with student loans: Scotland.
31: Imposition of conditions as to fees at further and higher education institutions in Scotland.

Part III: Right to time off for study or training

32: Right of young persons to time off for study or training.
33: Further provisions as to time off for study or training.

Part IV: Miscellaneous and general

Inspection of vocational training, etc: Wales

34: Inspection of vocational training by Her Majesty’s chief inspector of Education and Training in Wales or Prif Arolygydd Ei Mawrhydi dros Addysg a Hyfforddiant yng Nghymru.
35: Inspection of careers services by Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Education and Training in Wales or Prif Arolygydd Ei Mawrhydi dros Addysg a Hyfforddiant yng Nghymru.
35A: Inspection of other careers services etc. in Wales.

Funding Councils: England, Wales and Scotland

36: Power of funding councils in England and Wales to secure provision of certain further education.
37: Joint exercise of functions of funding councils in Scotland.
38: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Further and higher education institutions: England and Wales

39: Unauthorised use of “university” in title of educational institution, etc.
40: University college, etc., not to be treated as university.
41: Charitable status of further and higher education corporations.

General

42: Orders and regulations.
43: General interpretation.
44: Minor and consequential amendments and repeals.
45: Northern Ireland.: An Order in Council under paragraph 1(1)(b) of Schedule 1 to the Northern Ireland Act 1974 (legislation for Northern Ireland in the interim period) which contains a statement that it is made only for purposes corresponding to those of sections 22 to 26 and 28 or sections 32 and 33—
46: Short title, commencement and extent.

SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 1 Section 1(9).
General Teaching Council for Wales

Status of Council
Powers
Chairman and members of Council
Salaries, allowances, pensions and other payments
Staff
Finance
Committees
Delegation of functions
Proceedings
Accounts
Annual reports
Application of seal and proof of instruments

SCHEDULE 2 Section 6.
Disciplinary powers of Council

Investigation, hearing and determination of disciplinary cases
Disciplinary orders: general
Conditional registration orders
Suspension orders
Prohibition orders
Appeals against disciplinary orders
Supplementary provisions
Interpretation

SCHEDULE 3 Section 44(1).
Minor and consequential amendments

Public Records Act 1958 (c.51)
Superannuation Act 1972 (c.11)
House of Commons Disqualification Act 1975 (c.24)
Education (Scotland) Act 1980 (c.44)
Education (Fees and Awards) Act 1983 (c.40)
Education Reform Act 1988 (c.40)
Further and Higher Education Act 1992 (c.13)
Charities Act 1993 (c.10)
Employment Rights Act 1996 (c.18)
Education Act 1996 (c.56)

SCHEDULE 4 Section 44(2).
Repeals

Teaching and Higher Education Act 1998

1998 c. 30

An Act to make provision for the establishment of General Teaching Councils for England and Wales and with respect to the registration, qualifications and training of teachers and the inspection of such training; to make new provision with respect to grants and loans to students in higher or further education and fees payable by them; to make provision with respect to the funding of higher education institutions and certain further education, and other matters relating to further and higher education institutions; to enable the higher and further education funding councils in Scotland to discharge certain functions jointly; to enable young persons to have time off work for study or training; to make provision with respect to the inspection of training and careers services provided in pursuance of arrangements or directions under the Employment and Training Act 1973; to provide that the Scottish Further Education Funding Council shall be a relevant body for the purposes of section 19(5) of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995; and for connected purposes.

[16th July 1998]

Be it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—Annotations:

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

Part I: The teaching profession

The General Teaching Council for Wales: aims and constitution

1: Aims and constitution of the Council

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