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2007 No. 2116

EDUCATION, ENGLAND

The Further Education Teachers' Continuing Professional Development and Registration (England) Regulations 2007

  Made 20th July 2007 
  Laid before Parliament 30th July 2007 
  Coming into force 1st September 2007 

The Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 136(c) and 210(7) of the Education Act 2002[1]:

Citation and commencement
     1. These Regulations may be cited as The Further Education Teachers' Continuing Professional Development and Registration (England) Regulations 2007 and come into force on 1st September 2007.

Application
    
2. —(1) These Regulations apply only in relation to England.

    (2) These Regulations do not apply to any person employed as a teacher to teach on courses of higher education only.

Interpretation
    
3. —(1) In these Regulations—

    (2) Any reference in these Regulations to a part-time teacher includes a principal or other member of the management staff who spends only part of his time teaching.

Continuing professional development of teachers
     4. —(1) Subject to paragraph (4), every full-time teacher must complete at least 30 hours of CPD each year.

    (2) Subject to paragraphs (3) and (4), every part-time teacher must complete at least the pro-rata equivalent of 30 hours of CPD each year, calculated on the basis of the number of hours spent teaching in proportion to the number of hours a full-time teacher in the same institution spends teaching (or would spend teaching, if there were a full-time teacher in that institution), subject to a minimum of 6 hours each year.

    (3) Where a teacher is employed at more than one further education institution on a part-time basis, he must apportion the CPD which he is required to complete under paragraph (2) accordingly.

    (4) Where a teacher is employed for only part of a year or is absent from work for part of a year—

the CPD requirement for that teacher is reduced accordingly, on a pro-rata basis.

    (5) Every teacher must maintain a record of the CPD he has undertaken each year and make it available to his employer or, where he has more than one, each of his employers, for monitoring purposes.

    (6) Every teacher, other than one who is employed solely in a sixth form college and is registered with the GTC(E), must provide the IfL with a record of the CPD which he has undertaken each year, by 31st August, for monitoring purposes.

Registration of teachers
     5. —(1) Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3), every teacher must—

    (2) Sub-paragraph (1) does not apply to a teacher who is employed solely in a sixth form college and is registered with the GTC(E).

    (3) Sub-paragraph (1) does not apply to a teacher who is employed both in a school and a further education institution and is registered with the GTC(E), provided he commenced such dual employment and registered with the GTC(E) before 1st September 2007.

    (4) Every teacher referred to in sub-paragraphs (2) and (3) must provide the IfL with his GTC(E) registration details by 31st August every year.


Bill Rammell
Minister of State Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills

20th July 2007



EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)


These Regulations come into force on 1 September 2007 and apply to teachers at further education institutions, except where they only teach on higher education courses.

They require teachers to complete a minimum number of hours of continuing professional development (CPD) every year, maintain a record of the CPD they have undertaken every year, make that record available to their employers and provide the Institute for Learning (IfL) with a record of the CPD undertaken, for monitoring purposes (regulation 4).

They also require teachers to be registered with the IfL, except where they are—

A full impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no impact on the private or voluntary sectors is foreseen.


Notes:

[1] 2002 c.32.back

[2] 1996 c.18. Part VIII was substituted by Part I of Schedule 4 to the Employment Relations Act 1999 (c. 26).back

[3] Sections 71 and 73 were both amended by section 17 of the Employment Act 2002 (c.22) and further amended by paragraphs 31 and 32 of Schedule 1 to the Work and Families Act 2006 (c.18) respectively.back

[4] Sections 80A and 80B were inserted by section 1 of 2002 c.22 and sections 80AA and 80BB (which have not, at the time of making these Regulations, been commenced, were inserted by sections 3 and 4 respectively of 2006 c.18.back

[5] Sections 75A and 75B were inserted by section 3 of 2002 c. 22 and amended by paragraphs 33 and 34 of Schedule 1 to 2006 c. 18 respectively.back



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Prepared 30 July 2007


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