The Education (Bursaries for Teacher Training) (Amendment) Regulations 1987 No. 499


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1987 No. 499

EDUCATION, ENGLAND AND WALES

The Education (Bursaries for Teacher Training) (Amendment) Regulations 1987

Made

16th March 1987

Laid before Parliament

1st April 1987

Coming into force

24th April 1987

In exercise of the powers conferred on the Secretary of State by sections 3(a) and 4 of the Education Act 1962(1), the Secretary of State for Education and Science and (in respect of persons ordinarily resident in Wales(2), the Secretary of State for Wales hereby make the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Education (Bursaries for Teacher Training) (Amendment) Regulations 1987 and shall come into force on 24th April 1987.

Courses for which training bursaries are tenable

2.  For regulation 5 of the Education (Bursaries for Teacher Training) Regulations 1986(3) (the "principal Regulations") there shall be substituted the following regulation-

"5.  A training bursary shall neither be paid to a person nor be tenable by him except in respect of a course which either-

(i) (a) is full time;

(b)is provided by an establishment in England or Wales named by the Secretary of State when granting the training bursary;

(c)begins on or after 1st September 1986;

(d)is designed to prepare persons to teach pupils of all ages in secondary schools and of which the principal subject matter is-

(i)mathematics,

(ii)physics, or

(iii)craft, design and technology; and

(e)is such that the period which the person in question would require for its completion (after the exclusion of any period for which he is excused attendance) would ordinarily not exceed two academic years; or

(ii) is the part-time course in mathematics leading to the Post-graduate Certificate of Education provided by Thames Polytechnic and beginning in January 1987.".

Amount of training bursaries

3.  For regulation 7(1) of the principal Regulations there shall be substituted the following-

"(1) A training bursary shall-

(a)for a course such as is mentioned in regulation 5(i), be payable at the rate of £1,200 per annum; and

(b)for the course mentioned in regulation 5(ii), be £600 for the period 27th April 1987 to 31st December 1987 and £625 for 1988."

Kenneth Baker

Secretary of State for Education and Science

16th March 1987

Nicholas Edwards

Secretary of State for Wales

16th March 1987

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Education (Bursaries for Teacher Training) Regulations 1986 which authorise the Secretary of State to pay grants to persons undergoing training to prepare them to teach mathematics, physics or craft, design and technology.

The amendment adds to the courses for which training bursaries are tenable a part-time course in mathematics leading to the Post-graduate Certificate in Education at Thames Polytechnic which began in January 1987. The grant payable in respect of this course is £600 for the period 27th April to 31st December 1987 and £625 for 1988.

(1)

1962 c. 12; the relevant provisions are set out, as amended, in Schedule 5 to the Education Act 1980 (c. 20).

(2)

See S.I. 1978/274, article 2(7).

(3)

S.I. 1986/1324.


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