The Education (Teachers' Qualifications and Health Standards) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2000

4.  Part I of Schedule 3 shall be amended by—

(a) the substitution in paragraph 1(1)(b) for the words from “paragraphs 2 to 9” to “States of Guernsey Education Council” of “paragraphs 2 to 10, and if he is a person mentioned in paragraph 7, 8 or 10, that the statement submitted by the recommending body, the States of Guernsey Education Council or the recommending authority”;

(b) the substitution in paragraph 1(2) for “9” of “10”;

(c) the substitution in paragraph 1(3) for “7 or 9” each time they occur of “7, 9 or 10”; and

(d) the insertion after paragraph 9 of the following paragraph—

“10.— (1) The recommending authority has submitted to the Secretary of State a recommendation that a person should be awarded qualified teacher status and a statement that—

(a) on the date of the recommendation he is employed as a teacher in an independent school; and

(b) he has been assessed by the recommending authority as meeting the specified standards; and

(c) (i) before 1st January 1974 he obtained qualifications meeting the requirements of paragraph 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 or 17 of Part II of this Schedule, or

(ii) before 1st January 1974 he obtained a degree granted by a United Kingdom university or by the Council for National Academic Awards or by a foreign institution, or

(iii) before 1st September 1989 he obtained a degree granted by a United Kingdom university or by the Council for National Academic Awards or by a foreign institution in mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, botany, zoology, physiology, biochemistry or geology; and

(d) he was employed as a teacher in an independent school before 1st September 1989.

(2) In this paragraph—

(a) “recommending authority” means—

(i) in the case of a teacher who is not a head teacher or principal, the head teacher or principal of the independent school at which he is employed to teach, and

(ii) in the case of a head teacher or principal, the chairman of the governing body of the school, or if none the proprietor of the school;

(b) “foreign institution” has the same meaning as in paragraph 2(2)(b); and

(c) “specified standards” has the same meaning as in paragraph 9(2)(b).”.