§ Mr. Beithasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science why the five-year teacher training course at Nijmegen university in the Netherlands is not accepted by his Department as a qualification for teaching in Great Britain.
§ Dr. BoysonQualified teacher status in England and Wales is awarded on successful completion of an approved course of teacher training. Courses undertaken abroad can be accepted if it can be shown that their content and standard are broadly equivalent. On the information currently available, the course at Nijmegen university is not comparable, but I believe that the Depart320W ment's information is incomplete and that further details are being supplied. When these are available, the matter will be reviewed, but I can make no assumption about the outcome.