Education Bill

84A: After Clause 52, insert the following new Clause— ““Academies: school teachers’ qualifications (1) EA 2002 is amended as follows. (2) In section 133 (requirement to be qualified), in subsection (6) (schools to which this section applies), after paragraph (b) insert— ““(c) an Academy, including a free school, (d) a city technology college, or (e) a city college for the technology of the arts.”” (3) At the end of subsection (6) of that Act insert— ““(7) Nothing in subsection (6) should prohibit a school’s ability to employ non-qualified individuals to provide educational support in relation to non-‘specified work’ in so far as it would positively contribute to pupils’ educational development””. (4) Any individual employed under the terms of subparagraph (3) above shall be supervised in their work by a qualified teacher.””