Functions
Under The Public Services Reform (General Teaching Council for Scotland) Order 2011, GTCS’s general functions are to:
- keep a register of teachers (this is a list of all teachers who are registered and therefore eligible to teach in Scottish local authority schools)
- establish and review the standards of education and training appropriate to school teachers
- establish and review the standards of conduct and professional competence expected of a registered teacher
- investigate the fitness to teach of individuals who are, or are seeking to be, registered
- keep itself informed of the education and training of individuals undertaking courses for the education and training of teachers
- consider and make recommendations to Scottish Ministers about matters relating to teachers’ education, training, career development and fitness to teach as well as the supply of teachers
- keep such registers of other individuals working in educational settings as it thinks fit
- GTCS has a duty to carry out these functions in the interests of the public and in a way that appears to GTCS to represent best regulatory practice.
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