The Education (School Teachers' Qualifications) (England) Regulations 2003

PART 2Savings and General Transitional Provisions

Existing qualifications for teaching hearing impaired pupils

1.  Any person who immediately before 1st August 2003 possessed –

(a)a qualification approved for the purpose of regulation 11 of the 1999 Regulations;

(b)a qualification approved for the purpose of regulation 14 of the 1993 Regulations;

(c)a qualification approved for the purpose of regulation 15 of the 1989 Regulations;

(d)a qualification mentioned in regulation 15(1) of the 1982 regulations;

(e)a comparable qualification approved for the purposes of that regulation;

(f)a qualification mentioned in regulation 20(3) of the 1959 Regulations; or

(g)an equivalent qualification approved for the purposes of that regulation,

shall be treated as possessing a qualification approved for the purpose of regulation 6.

Existing qualifications for teaching visually impaired pupils

2.  Any person who immediately before 1st August 2003 possessed –

(a)a qualification approved for the purpose of regulation 12 of the 1999 Regulations;

(b)a qualification approved for the purpose of regulation 15 of the 1993 Regulations;

(c)a qualification approved for the purpose of regulation 16 of the 1989 Regulations;

(d)a qualification mentioned in regulation 16(1) of the 1982 Regulations;

(e)a qualification approved for the purpose of that regulation as comparable to a qualification so mentioned; or

(f)a qualification for teaching blind pupils which, immediately before 8th April 1982, satisfied the requirements of the Secretary of State under regulation 15(2) of the Handicapped Pupils and Special Schools Regulations 1959(1),

shall be treated as possessing a qualification approved for the purpose of regulation 7.

Continued employment of existing teachers of pupils who are hearing or visually impaired or both

3.—(1) A person who is mentioned in sub-paragraph (2) shall be a qualified teacher for the purposes of teaching a class of pupils who are both hearing and visually impaired, notwithstanding that he is not a qualified teacher for the purpose of regulation 8(1).

(2) A person who satisfies the requirements of –

(a)regulation 13 of the 1999 Regulations, or

(b)regulation 18 of the 1982 Regulations,

for employment as the teacher of a class of pupils who were both deaf or partially hearing and blind.

Accreditation of institutions providing initial teacher training

4.  Any accreditation for the purposes of –

(a)regulation 15 of the 1999 Regulations in force immediately before 1st August 2003;

(b)paragraph 2 of Schedule 3 to the 1999 Regulations in force immediately before 15th December 2001; or

(c)paragraph 3 of Schedule 3 to the 1993 Regulations in force immediately before 1st September 1999,

shall have effect as if given for the purposes of regulation 11.

Teacher trainees on the employment-based teacher training scheme

5.  The employment-based teacher training scheme established for the purposes of paragraph 19 of Schedule 2 to the 1999 Regulations shall have effect as if established for the purposes of paragraph 10 of Schedule 2 to these Regulations, and persons who are undertaking teacher training by virtue of that scheme shall continue to do so as if for the purposes of paragraph 10 of Schedule 2.

Other teacher training programmes

6.  A person who is undertaking a training programme pursuant to paragraph 9 of Schedule 3 to the 1999 Regulations shall continue to do so as if for the purposes of paragraph 10 of Schedule 2.