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

PART 4 Amendments to the 2014 Act

Amendments to Schedule 2 to the 2014 Act

6.—(1) Schedule 2 (categories of registration) to the 2014 Act is amended as follows.

(2) In Table 1 in paragraph 1, after the entry for “Independent special post-16 institution learning support worker” insert—

Category	Description
“Adult learning practitioner	A person who provides (or wishes to provide) further education and training to adults for or on behalf of a community-based adult learning provider.
Principal or senior leader in further education	A person who is undertaking (or wishes to undertake) a senior leadership role in managing teaching and learning in or for a further education institution in Wales.”

(3) In paragraph 3, in the appropriate places, insert—

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

““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 for Tertiary Education and Research(1) or the Welsh Ministers;”;

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

““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(2);”;

““higher education institution” (“sefydliad addysg uwch”) means an institution falling within section 91(5) of the Further and Higher Education Act 1992(3);”

Amendments to Schedule 4 to the 2014 Act

7.—(1) Schedule 4 (index of defined words and expressions) to the 2014 Act is amended as follows.

(2) In Table 3, in the appropriate places, insert—

Word or expression	Welsh language equivalent	Relevant provision
“Adult	Oedolyn	Schedule 2”
“Adult learning practitioner	Ymarferydd dysgu oedolion	Schedule 2”
“Community-based adult learning provider	Darparwr dysgu oedolion cymunedol	Schedule 2”
“Further education	Addysg bellach	Schedule 2”
“Higher education	Addysg uwch	Schedule 2”
“Higher education institution	Sefydliad addysg uwch	Schedule 2”
“Principal or senior leader in further education	Pennaeth neu uwch-arweinydd mewn addysg bellach	Schedule 2”

(1)

Established under section 1 of the Tertiary Education and Research (Wales) Act 2022 (asc 1).

(2)

1988 c. 40.

(3)

1992 c. 31.