General Functions of Council
5 Colleges of education.
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 F1or section 7 of this Act 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 F1or the said section 7 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.