The Education (Training Grants) (Amendment) Regulations 1990

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations further amend the Education (Training Grants) Regulations 1987.

The higher rate of grant payable under the 1987 Regulations is reduced from 70 per cent. to 65 per cent. for expenditure incurred on and after 1st April 1990—regulation 3(3).

Regulations 4 and 5 of the 1987 Regulations are amended to provide for grants to be made to local education authorities towards expenditure incurred by them in the provision of bursaries to students participating, as part of their course for a Postgraduate Certificate in Education, in the Articled Teachers Scheme—regulations 4(3) and 5.

Provision is also made for grants to be made to local education authorities to facilitate the training or further training as teachers of persons (such as licensed teachers) who are not qualified teachers but who are employed as teachers in non-maintained special schools—regulations 3(1) and 4(1).

Regulation 10(4) of the 1987 Regulations is amended to extend to 1st October, or as soon as practicable thereafter, the date by which an auditor’s certificate must be submitted to the Secretary of State — regulation 6.

Regulations 2(1) and 4 of the 1987 Regulations are amended to substitute the expression “institution of further education” (defined in an amendment to regulation 2(1)) for the expression “further education establishment”, to reflect the revised terminology introduced by the Education Reform Act 1988; and to refer, in the definition of “qualified teacher”, to regulations made under section 218 of that Act, which has replaced section 27 of the Education Act 1980—regulations 3(1), (2) and (4) and 4(2).