Part of Education Bill [Lords] – in a Public Bill Committee at 3:15 pm on 22 March 2005.
Angela Watkinson
Shadow Minister (Education)
3:15,
22 March 2005
The remit of the new agency is clearly wider than that embraced by the General Teaching Council because the career development of other categories of staff in schools will be covered by the new agency, whereas the GTC has not traditionally involved itself in that. I would like to see career paths to enable teaching assistants, for example, to move into teaching and I wonder whether the General Teaching Council would be attracted to that and might give it as a reason for becoming involved with the new agency.
Given the Minister’s reassurance that new Clause 16 is a duplication of what appears elsewhere in the Bill, I will not press my new clause.
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A parliamentary bill is divided into sections called clauses.
Printed in the margin next to each clause is a brief explanatory `side-note' giving details of what the effect of the clause will be.
During the committee stage of a bill, MPs examine these clauses in detail and may introduce new clauses of their own or table amendments to the existing clauses.
When a bill becomes an Act of Parliament, clauses become known as sections.
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