The Minister for Education and Skills, Leighton Andrews, has published proposals for changes to the professional registration of the wider education workforce across Wales to raise professional standards. Currently only qualified teachers are required to register with and be regulated by the General Teaching Council for Wales. But as part of his 20 point action plan to raise education standards, Mr Andrews is now proposing to widen the requirement to further education, work based learning, teaching assistants and possibly youth workers and other support staff.
