Singapore legislation
Regulation 26
Regulation 26
Deployment of teachers
Subregulation 1
For the purposes of section 17(1)(a) of the Act, no registered private education institution shall deploy a person to teach any course, or any module or subject thereof, to all or any of the students of the registered private education institution unless the person —
fulfils the criteria specified in paragraph (2); and
possesses the minimum qualifications and experience specified in paragraph (3).
Subregulation 2
The criteria referred to in paragraph (1)(a) are as follows:
the person has not been convicted of any offence involving sexual, child, physical or drug abuse, or fraud or dishonesty; (b)the person has not been convicted of any offence under the Act within a period of 5 years preceding the deployment; and
where the course, module or subject is of a vocational nature and the person only has the experience referred to in paragraph (3)(c) without any of the qualifications referred to in paragraph (3)(a) and (b), the Agency is of the opinion that the person is, by reason of his standing, a fit and proper person to be deployed to teach that course, module or subject.
Subregulation 3
The minimum qualifications and experience referred to in paragraph (1)(b) are as follows:
if the person has less than 5 years of working experience in the field to which the course, module or subject relates —
qualifications in that field which are at least a level higher than the level of the course; and
if the person’s qualifications were not obtained in the language medium in which the person is to teach the course, module or subject, at least a pass at General Certificate in Education ‘Ordinary’ level or its equivalent in that language medium;
if the person has at least 5 years of working experience in the field to which the course, module or subject relates —
qualifications in that field which are at least equivalent to the level of the course and, if the person’s qualifications were not obtained in the language medium in which the person is to teach the course, module or subject, at least a pass at General Certificate in Education ‘Ordinary’ level or its equivalent in that language medium; or
qualifications in a different field which are at least one level higher than the level of the course and, if the person’s qualifications were not obtained in the language medium in which the person is to teach the course, module or subject, at least a pass at General Certificate in Education ‘Ordinary’ level or its equivalent in that language medium; or
where the course, module or subject is of a vocational nature, the person has at least 5 years of working experience in the field to which the course, module or subject relates.
Subregulation 4
Every registered private education institution shall ensure that the qualifications referred to in paragraph (3) are conferred by education institutions which are recognised by the relevant authorities.
Subregulation 5
In this regulation, “relevant authority”, in relation to an education institution, means —
an authority which is responsible for supervising or regulating the education institution in the country or territory where the education institution is established; or
in the absence of such an authority, any body which is generally recognised by the academic community in the country or territory where the education institution is established as being able to make an authoritative assessment or evaluation of, and give official recognition to, the academic standard of the education institution.