The Education Workforce Council (Additional Categories of Registration and Further Education Teacher Qualifications) (Wales) Order 2024

PART 1 General

Title and coming into force

1.—(1) The title of this Order is the Education Workforce Council (Additional Categories of Registration and Further Education Teacher Qualifications) (Wales) Order 2024.

(2) This Order comes into force on 10 May 2024.

Interpretation

2.  In this Order—

“the 1996 Act” (“Deddf 1996”) means the Employment Rights Act 1996(1);

“the 2014 Act” (“Deddf 2014”) means the Education (Wales) Act 2014;

“the 2015 Regulations” (“Rheoliadau 2015”) means the Education Workforce Council (Main Functions) Wales Regulations 2015(2);

“the 2017 Regulations” (“Rheoliadau 2017”) means the Education Workforce Council (Registration Fees) Regulations 2017(3);

“the 2023 Regulations” (“Rheoliadau 2023”) means the Recognition of Professional Qualifications and Implementation of International Recognition Agreements (Wales) (Amendment etc.) Regulations 2023(4);

“adult” (“oedolyn”) means a person aged 18 or over;

“adult learning practitioner” (“ymarferydd dysgu oedolion”) means a person who provides further education and training to adults for or on behalf of a community-based adult learning provider;

“Commission” (“Comisiwn”) means the Commission for Tertiary Education and Research established under section 1 of the Tertiary Education and Research (Wales) Act 2022(5);

“community-based adult learning provider” (“darparwr dysgu oedolion cymunedol”) means a provider (other than a school, further education institution or higher education institution) of further education and training for adults which is based in the community and funded or otherwise provided by a local authority, the Commission or the Welsh Ministers;

“Council” (“Cyngor”) means the Education Workforce Council, being the body corporate renamed by section 2 of the 2014 Act;

“further education” (“addysg bellach”) means education (other than higher education) suitable to the requirements of persons who are over compulsory school age;

“further education institution” (“sefydliad addysg bellach”) has the meaning given in section 140 of the Education Act 2002(6);

“higher education” (“addysg uwch”) means education provided by means of a course of any description mentioned in Schedule 6 to the Education Reform Act 1988(7);

“higher education institution” (“sefydliad addysg uwch”) means an institution falling within section 91(5) of the Further and Higher Education Act 1992(8);

“local authority” (“awdurdod lleol”) means a county council or a county borough council in Wales;

“principal or senior leader in further education” (“pennaeth neu uwch-arweinydd mewn addysg bellach”) means a person who is undertaking a senior leadership role in managing teaching and learning in or for a further education institution in Wales;

“school” (“ysgol”) means a school maintained by a local authority in Wales or a special school in Wales not so maintained.

(1)

1996 c. 18.

(2)

S.I. 2015/140 (W. 8), amended by S.I. 2016/6 (W. 4), S.I. 2019/444 (W. 107) and S.I. 2023/551 (W. 86).

(3)

S.I. 2017/92 (W. 34), amended by S.I. 2023/551 (W.86).

(4)

S.I. 2023/1294 (W. 230).

(5)

2022 asc 1.

(6)

2002 c. 34.

(7)

1988 c. 40.

(8)

1992 c. 13.