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

S.I. 2012/694 · Made 5 March 2012

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Education, England And Wales

Made 5th March 2012

Laid before Parliament 8th March 2012

Coming into force 1st April 2012

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 2002f1 (“the Act”).

In accordance with section 126 of the Actf2 the Secretary of State has consulted such of the persons and bodies referred to in that section as appeared to him to be appropriate.

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

2002 c.32. See section 122(8) of the Act for the definition of “prescribed”.

f2

Section 126 of the Education Act 2002 was amended by S.I. 2010/1158.

Contents

  1. 1Citation and commencement
  2. 2Amendments to the Education (School Teachers’ Prescribed Qualifications, etc) Order 2003
  3. 3Amendments to the Education (School Teachers’ Prescribed Qualifications, etc) Order 2003
  4. 4Amendments to the Education (School Teachers’ Prescribed Qualifications, etc) Order 2003
  5. 5Amendments to the Education (School Teachers’ Prescribed Qualifications, etc) Order 2003
  6. Signature
  7. Explanatory note

1Citation and commencement

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

2Amendments to the Education (School Teachers’ Prescribed Qualifications, etc) Order 2003

The Education (School Teachers’ Prescribed Qualifications, etc) Order 2003f1 is amended as follows.

3Amendments to the Education (School Teachers’ Prescribed Qualifications, etc) Order 2003

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

4Amendments to the Education (School Teachers’ Prescribed Qualifications, etc) Order 2003

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 statusf1”.

5Amendments to the Education (School Teachers’ Prescribed Qualifications, etc) Order 2003

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”.

Signature

Nick Gibb

Minister of State

Department for Education

5th March 2012

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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