Explanatory note

This Order confers on the Teacher Training Agency, established under section 1 of the Education Act 1994, the additional function of paying grants as incentives to encourage the governing bodies of maintained schools and non-maintained special schools, local education authorities, city technology colleges, city colleges for the technology of the arts and city academies to recruit, employ and secure the provision of training for graduate teachers. Graduate teachers are unqualified teachers participating in employment-based training designed to lead to the award of qualified teacher status.