Regulation 2

in regulation 2(1) at the appropriate point in alphabetical order there shall be inserted the following definitions:

• ““graduate teacher” means a person employed in a school in accordance with Part II of Schedule 2 to the Education (Teachers' Qualifications and Health Standards) (England) Regulations 1999^f2;”;

• ““registered teacher” means a person employed in a school in accordance with Part III of Schedule 2 to the Education (Teachers' Qualifications and Health Standards) (England) Regulations 1999;”;

in regulation 7(2)(a)(i) after “period” there shall be inserted “or was employed as a graduate teacher or a registered teacher”; and

in Schedule 1 after paragraph 16 there shall be added the following paragraph:

“17

A person who—

(a)

has successfully completed a programme of professional training for teachers in any country outside the United Kingdom and which is recognised as such by the competent authority in that country;

(b)

has not less than two years' full-time teaching experience, or its equivalent, in the United Kingdom or elsewhere;

(c)

is a qualified teacher who achieved qualified teacher status, by virtue of paragraph 7 of Schedule 3 to the Education (Teachers' Qualifications and Health Standards) (England) Regulations 1999, after the coming into force of these amending regulations; and

(d)

has been assessed by a person approved by the Teacher Training Agency as meeting the standards mentioned in regulation 13.”.