ABSTRACT
The Teacher Training Agency (TTA) was established as a non-governmental agency sponsored by the Department for Education (DfE) in 1994. The Agency's statutory objectives are set out in the Education Act 1994 as:
to contribute to raising the standards of teaching;
to promote teaching as a career;
to improve the quality and efficiency of all routes into the teaching profession; and
to secure the involvement of schools in all courses for the initial training of school teachers.
(DfE 1994)
