Teaching and Higher Education Act 1998

1998 CHAPTER 30

An Act to make provision for the establishment of General Teaching Councils for England and Wales and with respect to the registration, qualifications and training of teachers and the inspection of such training; to make new provision with respect to grants and loans to students in higher or further education and fees payable by them; to make provision with respect to the funding of higher education institutions and certain further education, and other matters relating to further and higher education institutions; to enable the higher and further education funding councils in Scotland to discharge certain functions jointly; to enable young persons to have time off work for study or training; to make provision with respect to the inspection of training and careers services provided in pursuance of arrangements or directions under the Employment and Training Act 1973; to provide that the Scottish Further Education Funding Council shall be a relevant body for the purposes of section 19(5) of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995; and for connected purposes.

[16th July 1998]

Be it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 Power to modify conferred (E.W.) (28.2.2001) by 1998 c. 30, s. 6, Sch. 2 para. 7(3) (with s. 42(8)); S.I. 2001/1211, art. 2

C2 Act: certain functions under Pt. I, ss. 25, 26, 28(1)(e) and Pt. IV transferred (1.7.1999) by S.I. 1999/674, art. 2, Sch.1

Act applied (1.6.2001) by S.I. 2001/1507, reg. 2, Sch. 2 para. 2

C3 Act applied (1.4.2005) by The Central Sussex College (Government) Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/397), Sch. 2 para. 2

C4 Act modified (7.4.2005) by Education Act 2005 (c. 18), s. 96(2)