Qualifications for teachers, tutors, trainers, lecturers and instructors
in the FE sector in England

You are required to hold either ATLS or QTS.

For ATLS see Route B or Route C (Please see notes)




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ROUTE B

Qualifications requirements: PTLLS & CTLLS

Status required: ATLS, following professional formation.

Timescale: within 5 years


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ROUTE C

Qualifications requirements: Gaining recognition of prior experience and qualifications as equivalent to being part or fully qualified, i.e. through APL, Tariff database of Legacy Qualifications (TLQ), Professional Recognition Schemes, or through EU APL and recognition in conjunction with EU directive 2005/36/EC. Supplemented by top-up CPD, if required, to gain equivalence to being fully qualified.

Status required: QTLS or ATLS, following professional formation

Timescale: within 5 years


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