Explanatory note

These Regulations amend the Education (Teachers' Qualifications and Health Standards) (England) Regulations (S.I. 1999/2166), as follows—

A teacher trainee who has satisfied all the specified standards required of a person who seeks to become a qualified teacher save that he has yet to pass the skills tests, may now be employed as an unqualified teacher for an aggregate period of 5 years or such longer period if any as may be approved by the Secretary of State.

Paragraph 9 of Schedule 3 is amended to enable overseas trained teachers who meet the assessment criteria to be awarded qualified teacher status.

Further education teachers may now be recommended for qualified teacher status if the terms of paragraph 10A of Schedule 3 are satisfied. Such a teacher is eligible for qualified teacher status if he is employed as a teacher in a further education institution or as an instructor in a school, he has been assessed as meeting the specified standards, he holds one of the qualifications specified in Part II of Schedule 3 or he holds a degree, he was employed as a teacher at a further education institution before 1st September 1989, he holds a Certificate in Education or a Post-graduate Certificate in Education, and in the opinion of the recommending body he has sufficient teaching experience to be able to teach pupils aged from 14 to 19 years.