HC Deb 01 November 1988 vol 139 c600W
Ms. Armstrong

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if, in the light of the findings of Her Majesty's inspectors' report "The New Teacher in School", he will reconsider proposals to allow unlicensed persons to become classroom teachers.

Mrs. Rumbold

My right hon. Friend has made no such proposals. His proposals for reform of qualified teacher status are for existing non-standard routes, which include provision for untrained persons to be granted QTS with no post entry training obligation, to be replaced with a single licensed teacher route involving obligatory training.