§ Mr. PawseyTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will make arrangements to enable city technology colleges to participate in the schemes for articled and licensed teachers.
§ Mr. Kenneth ClarkeLicensed teachers are employed in accordance with regulations made under section 218 of the Education Reform Act 1988. By virtue of section 218(12), these regulations do not apply to CTCs. I propose to bring forward legislation when the parliamentary timetable allows to enable CTCs to employ unqualified teachers under a licence leading to the award of qualified teacher status on the same terms and conditions as in maintained and grant-maintained schools.
There is no statutory impediment to CTCs' participating in the articled teacher scheme, which is a pilot 178W programme for the development of school-based teacher training. My officials will be consulting CTCs on how best they can play their part in this and other forms of school-based training.