Cap. 576 чл. 11Suitability of sponsors and trainers.

(1) The VET provider shall identify and supervise the suitability of sponsors and trainers who engage learners for the purposes of this Act, which sponsors and trainers must have the sufficient technical experience, technical qualifications and personal competences:

Provided that sponsors who do not, in the opinion of the VET provider, possess the necessary technical qualifications may only be permitted by the VET provider to engage learners after appointing trainers with the necessary technical experience, technical qualifications and personal competences to directly impart the essential training in a responsible manner on the training premises:

Provided further that persons shall be deemed to have the necessary technical experience if they possess the vocational knowledge and skills required by the training programme and have been employed in a practical capacity for a period of five years in their own occupation.

(2) The VET provider shall deem that a person possesses the necessary technical qualifications if they have obtained a certification recognised by the Malta Qualifications Framework or by international qualification structures recognized by industry in a technical field corresponding to the skilled and technical occupation:

Provided that the VET provider may still recognise persons as trainers without having the technical qualifications after having produced evidence that they have acquired through experience the technical competences necessary to tutor learners;

(3) Any other person, who possesses the knowledge, skills, behaviours, attitudes and the personal competences necessary to deliver the learning outcomes defined in the training programme plan, may, under the responsibility of the lead trainer, participate in the provision of work-based learning and training processes:

Provided that a person shall not be deemed to have the necessary personal competences if he has been found guilty of repeated or serious contraventions of this Act or of the provisions issued and regulations made according to this Act.