Statutory Instruments
EDUCATION, SCOTLAND
Made
7th March 1988
Laid before Parliament
10th March 1988
Coming into force
31st March 1988
The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 73(a), (f) and (g) and 74(1) of the Education (Scotland) Act 1980((1)), and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Education (Grants for Training of Teachers and Community Education Workers) (Scotland) Regulations 1988 and shall come into force on 31st March 1988.
2. For the purposes of these Regulations—
(a)any reference to a teacher shall include a teacher employed in providing further education and an educational psychologist;
(b)any reference to a community education worker shall mean any person other than a teacher who works for a local authority whether for payment or otherwise wholly or partly for purposes of education; and
(c)any reference to a local authority shall mean a regional or islands council.
3. The Secretary of State may, subject to and in accordance with the provisions of these Regulations, pay to education authorities grants of such amounts as appear to him appropriate in respect of teachers in their employment undergoing in-service training or in respect of the development or preparation of materials for in-service training of teachers.
4. The Secretary of State may, subject to and in accordance with the provisions of these Regulations, pay to local authorities grants of such amounts as appear to him appropriate in respect of the attendance at courses to which these Regulations apply by community education workers.
5. A grant may be paid only in respect of a course within a subject area listed in the Schedule to these Regulations.
6.—(1) Applications for grants shall be made in writing to the Secretary of State by an education authority or local authority.
(2) Payment of these grants shall be made to the education authority or local authority in arrears.
(3) If any person in respect of whom a grant has been approved fails to complete the course, the education authority or local authority, as the case may be, shall at the request of the Secretary of State repay to the Secretary of State the whole or such part as the Secretary of State considers appropriate of such grant.
7. The Education (Grants for Training of Teachers and Community Education Workers) (Scotland) Regulations 1986((2)) and the Education (Grants for Training of Teachers and Community Education Workers) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1987((3)) are hereby revoked.
Michael B Forsyth
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office
New St Andrew’s House,
Edinburgh
7th March 1988
Regulation 5
Technology in the primary school. Assessment in the primary school.
Technological education in the secondary school. Enterprise education. Design education in secondary schools. Courses in support of Standard Grade.
Extension of the Technical and Vocational Education Initiative.
Meeting special educational needs-10 years on. Managing the curriculum for pupils with social, emotional and behavioural problems. Education and personal development in the physically disabled young person.
Health education. Management for promoted staff in schools. The identification of key issues in the management of staff development.
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
Under section 73 of the Education (Scotland) Act 1980 the Secretary of State may in accordance with regulations made by him make payment of such sums as appear to him appropriate for various purposes. Section 74(1) of the Act enables the Secretary of State to prescribe in regulations conditions and requirements with which the recipients of the grant must comply.
These Regulations revoke and replace the Education (Grants for Training of Teachers and Community Education Workers) (Scotland) Regulations 1986 and the Education (Grants for Training of Teachers and Community Education Workers) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1987. They continue to provide for the payment to education authorities of grants in respect of teachers undergoing in-service training courses in the subject areas listed in the Schedule to the Regulations which has been brought up to date to take account of available courses. “Teacher” is defined to include educational psychologists.
The Regulations also make provision for the payment of grants to local authorities in respect of the attendance of community education workers at these courses and provide a definition of “community education worker” . Provision is made for repayment of grant should a teacher or community education worker fail to complete a course.