Applicants must be practicing teachers/trainers in post compulsory education and training in a full teaching role with a teaching commitment of 3 hours per week or more, have achieved or be working towards level 2 Key Skills in numeracy and literacy and possess 1 of the following qualifications: degree; membership of a professional body; HND/C; part 3 or full technological certificate of City and Guilds of London Institute; a qualification designated as advanced by examining or awarding bodies and accepted as such by further education institutions; qualifications in a specific area of an equivalent standard or have extensive, professional experience within a specific vocational sector; applicants must also have a Vocational Mentor appointed officially by their employer.