Distance Learning Provider

The English Language Teaching Council would like to draw the attention that the provision of Distance Learning is being regulated via legal notice 221 of 2015. ELT Distance Learning Providers must be in possession of a licence to operate as per legal notice requirements (link: https://bit.ly/2sco9v3).

1. Duties and Responsibilities of the Distance Learning Provider:

• satisfy at all times the academic criteria and standards of these regulations, outline in Legal Notice 221 of 2015, licence conditions and Council rules as established by the Council from time to time;
• identify the English language training needs of the students, designing formal tuition course syllabi, selecting course materials and implementation;
• set and monitor the formal academic plan including standards and performance levels, all placement and final assessments and certification;
• recruitment, guidance, in-service training, regular continual professional development and performance assessment of ELT Practitioners;
• attend to formal academic issues, academic progress of students and English Language Teachers and resolving academic issues and complaints;
• maintenance of proper academic records including formal tuition course syllabi, ELT Practitioner register, student attendance records;
• set and oversee the non-formal learning objectives, processes, standards and outcomes of the school;
• liaison with the Council on all formal, non-formal academic matters;
• comply with all reporting requirements on academic services which may lawfully be requested by the Council from time to time in an accurate and timely manner;
• comply with all applicable laws, regulations, licence conditions, Council rules and any quality assurance measures in force from time to time;
• shall be responsible for the development and supervision of the Distance Learning Programmes and any student assessment thereto;
• shall be responsible for the application of suitable modern technologies;
• shall be responsible for the creation of a suitable environment for the implementation of the Distance Learning Programme;
• shall be responsible for the development of skills of the English Language Teachers providing Distance Learning teaching in the field of education technology and development of electronic curricula with the provision of technical support, timely feedback of the English Language Teachers providing Distance Learning to the students deemed to be not in excess of twenty-four hours, save that a Distance Learning Provider may promote and inform a prospective student prior to recruitment that the twenty-four hour time-frame is not applicable on week-ends and on listed public holidays.

Licensed Distance Learning Providers:

• Online TEFL Teacher
• English Language Skill Assessment (ELSA) – License suspended