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Recommendation 20: We recommend to the Government that the Teacher Training Agency continue its remit in respect of teacher training in England but that the respective responsibilities of the Higher Education Funding Council for England and the Teacher Training Agency are reviewed in drawing up proposals for the role of a General Teaching Council.

3.8 While the lead funding agency responsibility for teacher training in England will continue to rest with the Teacher Training Agency, the Government shares the Committee’s view that the Teacher Training Agency and the HEFCE should work closely together on issues of mutual interest or concern. Grant letters sent to both bodies in November 1997 stressed the need for their continued co-operation on questions of student numbers and funding. The Government looks to the two bodies to co-operate to ensure that its policies on higher education are delivered. In taking forward its proposals for a General Teaching Council, which are currently before Parliament, the Government will look to all the interested bodies to work closely together.

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