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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;

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

is a qualified teacher who became so qualified on or after 26th April 2001 by virtue of regulation 5 of, and paragraph 9 or 10 of Schedule 2 to, the 2003 Qualifications Regulations; and

has been assessed by a person approved by the Secretary of State as meeting the standards mentioned in regulation 10(5).