Queensland Consolidated Acts

EDUCATION (QUEENSLAND COLLEGE OF TEACHERS) ACT 2005 - SECT 230

The college has the following functions about registration of, and permission to teach for, teachers in Queensland—

(a) to be responsible to the Minister for granting registration or permission to teach to persons under this Act;

(b) deciding how a person must satisfy initial and ongoing eligibility requirements for registration and permission to teach;

(c) deciding applications for registration or permission to teach and applications for renewal of registration or permission to teach;

(d) ensuring approved teachers continue to meet the eligibility requirements mentioned in paragraph (b), including, for example, monitoring the compliance of approved teachers with conditions of registration or permission to teach;

(e) arranging checks of the police information of approved teachers and applicants for registration or permission to teach;

(f) reviewing registration of teachers, and the granting of permission to teach to teachers;

(g) reporting, and making recommendations, to the Minister about the matters mentioned in paragraph (f);

(h) approving and monitoring preservice teacher education programs for provisional registration;

(i) developing and applying professional standards for entry to, and continuing membership of, the teaching profession;

(j) keeping a register of, and records relating to, approved teachers.