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(1)It shall be the duty of the Council to keep under review the standards of education, training and fitness to teach appropriate to persons entering the teaching profession and to make to the Secretary of State from time to time such recommendations with respect to those standards as they think fit.
(2)Without prejudice to the foregoing subsection the Council may in particular make to the Secretary of State recommendations as to the conditions which, in their view, should be prescribed by him under section 7 of this Act.
(3)It shall also be the duty of the Council to consider, and make to the Secretary of State from time to time recommendations on, such other matters relating to the education, training and fitness to teach of teachers as they think fit or as may be referred to them by the Secretary of State.
It shall be the duty of the Council to consider, and make to the Secretary of State from time to time recommendations on, such matters (other than remuneration or conditions of service) relating to the supply of teachers as they think fit or as may be referred to them by the Secretary of State.
In exercising his functions under the Education (Scotland) Acts 1939 to 1965 the Secretary of State shall have regard to any recommendations made to him by the Council under the two last foregoing sections.
(1)It shall be the duty of the Council—
(a)to keep themselves informed of the nature of the instruction given in colleges of education, and
(b)to undertake such other functions in relation to colleges of education as may be assigned to them by the Secretary of State by regulations made under section 81 of the Act of 1962 after consultation with the Council and with the governing bodies of such of those colleges as appear to him to be concerned ;
and the power to make regulations conferred on the Secretary of State by the said section 81 shall include power to make regulations for the purposes of paragraph (b) of this subsection.
(2)For the purposes of their duty under paragraph (a) of the foregoing subsection the Council may appoint on such terms as may be agreed persons to visit colleges of education on their behalf, and it shall be the duty of those visitors to report to the Council as to the general content and arrangement of the courses of instruction provided in the colleges of education visited by them; but no such visitor shall interfere with the giving of any instruction or with the conduct of any examination.
(3)Where it appears to the Council (as a result of a report under the last foregoing subsection or otherwise) that any change should be made in the general content or arrangement of the courses of instruction provided in any college of education the Council may make recommendations in that behalf to the governing body of that college ; and if, after consultation between the Council and the governing body, and any resulting modification by the Council of the recommendations, the governing body refuses to accept the recommendations (or, as the case may be, the recommendations as modified) the Council may report the circumstances to the Secretary of State.
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