2012 No. 694
Education, England And Wales

The Education (School Teachers’ Prescribed Qualifications, etc) (Amendment) Order 2012

Made
Laid before Parliament
Coming into force
The Secretary of State for Education makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 122(5) and 210(7) of the Education Act 20021 (“the Act”).
In accordance with section 126 of the Act2 the Secretary of State has consulted such of the persons and bodies referred to in that section as appeared to him to be appropriate.

Citation and commencement

1.

This Order may be cited as the Education (School Teachers’ Prescribed Qualifications, etc) (Amendment) Order 2012 and comes into force on 1st April 2012.

Amendments to the Education (School Teachers’ Prescribed Qualifications, etc) Order 2003

2.

The Education (School Teachers’ Prescribed Qualifications, etc) Order 20033 is amended as follows.

3.

In article 3, in the definition of “accredited institution”, for “Training and Development Agency for Schools” substitute “Secretary of State”.

4.

In article 7(1)(b) for “been awarded qualified teacher status by the General Teaching Council for England in accordance with regulation 10 of those Regulations” substitute “qualified teacher status4”.

5.

For article 7(2)(b) substitute—

“(b)

the “teacher trainee skills tests” means the literacy and numeracy teacher trainee skills tests administered by the Secretary of State”.

Nick Gibb
Minister of State
Department for Education
EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Education (School Teachers’ Prescribed Qualifications, etc) Order 2003 with effect from 1st April 2012.

The amendments—

(a)

make amendments relating to the abolition of the Training and Development Agency for Schools on 1st April 2012 (article 3 and 5);

(b)

delete a reference to the General Teaching Council for England which is being abolished from the same date (article 4); and

(c)

remove a reference to the information, communications and technology skills test that is no longer a requirement for those seeking to become a qualified teacher in England (article 5).

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