Regulation of the teaching profession, meanwhile, is to be passed over to a new executive agency of the DfE, to be known as the Teaching Regulation Agency. This includes responsibility for misconduct hearings.
The decision comes after the DfE unveiled plans to run pilot recruitment programmes in 25 areas across England that will see student loan payments reimbursed for teachers of modern foreign languages and the sciences in the early years of their careers.
It also comes after education secretary Justine Greening officially opened the new Institute for Teaching (IfT), a specialist graduate school for teachers to support their continued training and development.
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