Further Education Teachers' Qualifications (Wales) Regulations 2002

Interpretation

2.  In these Regulations—

• “Certificate of Education” (“Tystysgrif Addysg”) means a qualification known by that name awarded prior to 1st August 2002 by an institution within the higher education sector;

• “institution within the further education sector” (“sefydliad o fewn y sector addysg bellach”) means an institution within the meaning of section 91(3) of the Further and Higher Education Act 1992(1);

• “the National Assembly” (“y Cynulliad Cenedlaethol”) means the National Assembly for Wales;

• “relevant teacher” (“athro neu athrawes berthnasol”) 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” (“cymhwyster addysgu AB cam 3”) means a qualification the standards for which are specified by the National Assembly for the purpose of these Regulations;

• “stage 2 FE teaching qualification” (“cymhwyster addysgu AB cam 2”) means the intermediate stage of the stage 3 FE teaching qualification the standards for which are specified by the National Assembly for the purpose of these Regulations;

• “stage 1 FE teaching qualification” (“cymhwyster addysgu AB cam 1”) means the introductory stage of the stage 3 FE teaching qualification the standards for which are specified by the National Assembly for the purpose of these Regulations;

• “stage 3 post” (“swydd cam 3”) means a teaching post for which a stage 3 FE teaching qualification is, in the opinion of the institution within the further education sector which employs the teacher, an appropriate qualification;

• “stage 2 post” (“swydd cam 2”) means a part-time teaching post for which a stage 2 FE teaching qualification is, in the opinion of the institution within the further education sector which employs the teacher, an appropriate qualification;

• “stage 1 post” (“swydd cam 1”) means a part-time teaching post for which a stage 1 FE teaching qualification is, in the opinion of the institution within the further education sector which employs the teacher, an appropriate qualification;

• “the 1999 Regulations” (“Rheoliadau 1999”) means the Education (Teachers' Qualifications and Health Standards) (Wales) Regulations 1999(2);

• “1999 Regulations qualification” (“cymhwyster Rheoliadau 1999”) means a qualification that confers upon a person the status of a qualified teacher within the meaning of regulation 10 of the 1999 Regulations.

(1)

1992 c. 13.

(2)

S.I. 1999/2817 (W.18).