INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATION AGENCY (ESTABLISHMENT) ORDER

INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATION AGENCY

(ESTABLISHMENT) ORDER

SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 595.24

INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATION AGENCY

(ESTABLISHMENT) ORDER

19th September, 2017

LEGAL NOTICE 243 of 2017.

The title of this Order is the Institute for Education

(Establishment) Order.

(1)

There shall be an Agency, to be known as the

Institute for Education, which shall serve as a platform to ascertain,

implement and support Government policy where it concerns the

formation, quality and standards that promote and develop training

and the building of skills within the grades of educators and

professionals in the education sector and within European and

international dimensions and to reach all those who are and, or may

become involved in the education sectors and within a socio-

economic context.

(2) The Agency shall assume the responsibilities previously

vested in the Institute for Education, established by means of the

Institute for Education (Establishment) Order, which is being

reconstituted by virtue of this Order.

(3) All employees previously performing duties with, and

any other public officers currently deployed with, the Institute for

Education within the Ministry of Education shall be regarded as

employees of the Agency under the same terms and conditions

prevailing at the date of coming into force of this Order and their

employment contracts shall continue in force as if they were entered

into by the Agency.

(4) Public officers deployed with the Agency shall be

deemed to be detailed with the Agency in accordance with article 33

of the Public Administration Act.

(5) The Agency shall, as from the coming into force of this

Order, assume responsibility for all assets, liabilities and obligations

previously entered into by the entity which is being reconstituted.

(1)

The functions and duties of the Agency shall be

to

(a)

create high level accredited courses at various

EQF levels for the needs and interests of education

practitioners and stakeholders;

(b)

collaborate with Education Departments,

Colleges and schools and other entities and institutions

INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATION AGENCY

(ESTABLISHMENT) ORDER

whether government or private, local or international, in

designing and providing quality courses that cater for all the

professional needs of education practitioners and stakeholders;

(c)

provide professional formation, skills, attitudes

and practices and implement activities consistent with or in

support of the Government policies and educational

frameworks;

(d)

provide advice in relation to issues, needs and

practices with reference to European and, or international

training programmes and furthermore in relation to the socio-

economic needs from time to time;

(e)

through research, to clarify, understand and

widen the various aspects of educational leadership;

(f)

develop a leadership and autonomous vision

for schools;

(g)

create a learning community act for educators

to meet and share common experiences, challenges and

possibilities;

(h)

nurture a meaningful, truly engaging awareness

of education in a wider sense and its dialectal relationship with

life;

(i)

encourage reflective educational leadership

that is aware of its qualities, possibilities, challenges and

limits, personally, socially, and professionally, hence

becoming a leadership that nurtures trust and hope;

(j)

act as a meaningful forum for educational

policy discussions;

(k)

carry out any other function which is related to

or ancillary to the above.

(2) The Agency shall keep under review the workings of

this Order, and where deemed required, at the request of the Minister

or otherwise, submit proposals for the Order’s review.

(1)

The Minister responsible for the Institute for

Education shall be the Minister responsible for education.

(2) The Permanent Secretary in the Ministry responsible for

education shall supervise the Agency in terms of article 29 of the

Public Administration Act

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Provided that the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry

responsible for education may be assisted in such supervision by

another Permanent Secretary in accordance with the proviso to article

14(6) of the Public Administration Act

Provided further that if a Minister, other than the Prime

Minister, assumes responsibility for the Agency, its supervision shall

fall under the Permanent Secretary of that Ministry.

The Agency shall be governed by the provisions of the

Public Finance Management Act unless otherwise stated in the

Agency Agreement between the Permanent Secretary and the

Institute for Education, in which case the provisions of the Agency

Agreement shall prevail.

The operations of the Agency shall follow an Agency

Agreement which is to be agreed between the Permanent Secretary

and the Institute for Education.

(1)

The Minister responsible for the Agency may

establish an advisory board to assist the Chief Executive Officer in

the discharge of his duties.

(2) An advisory board established under this article shall

consist of not less than two and not more than four members

appointed by the Minister responsible for the Agency.

(3) The remuneration paid to members of the Agency’s

Advisory Board shall be in accordance with any directives and

guidelines which may be issued by the Agency from time to time.