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

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);”

(1)

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

(2)

1988 c. 40.

(3)

1992 c. 31.