7—Prescribed qualifications, experience and requirements for registration as teacher
(1) For the purposes of section 21(1)(a) of the Act, the qualifications required for registration as a teacher are as follows:
(a) an approved teacher education degree, diploma or other qualification awarded on satisfactory completion of a higher education course of pre-service teacher education in pre-school, primary or secondary education that—
(i) is of at least 4 years' full-time duration or part-time equivalent duration; and
(ii) includes a practical student teaching component undertaken at a school or prescribed service; or
(b) —
(i) an approved non-teacher education degree, diploma or other qualification awarded on satisfactory completion of a higher education course that is of at least 3 years' full-time duration or part-time equivalent duration; and
(ii) an approved postgraduate degree, diploma or other qualification awarded on satisfactory completion of a higher education course of pre-service teacher education in pre-school, primary or secondary education that—
(A) is of at least 1 year's full-time duration or part-time equivalent duration; and
(B) includes a practical student teaching component undertaken at a school or prescribed service.
(2) For the purposes of section 21(1)(a) of the Act, the experience required for registration as a teacher is 1 year's full-time (or part-time equivalent of 200 days') satisfactory service as a teacher (as determined in accordance with any policy of the Board) at a school or prescribed service in Australia or New Zealand.
(3) For the purposes of section 21(1)(b) of the Act, a person must have satisfactorily completed a mandatory notification course during the period of 12 months before an application for registration as a teacher is made.
(4) However, subregulation (3)
does not apply to a person who applies for registration as a teacher within 2 years after having satisfactorily completed a course of teacher education referred to in subregulation (1)
during which the person satisfactorily completed a mandatory notification course.
(5) In this regulation—
"approved" degree, diploma or other qualification means—
(a) a degree, diploma or other qualification awarded by a higher education institution that is a member of Universities Australia; or
(b) a degree, diploma or other qualification that was at any time nationally registered by the former Australian Council on Awards in Advanced Education or the former Australian Council on Tertiary Awards,
but does not include a degree, diploma or other qualification that the Teachers Registration Board has determined is not an appropriate qualification for registration.