:Training and Development Agency for Schools

{{Short description|Defunct teacher training program}}

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The Training and Development Agency for Schools (TDA) was a body responsible for the initial and in-service training of teachers and other school staff in England. It was an executive non-departmental public body of the Department for Education. The agency took on some operations of the General Teaching Council for England, the Qualifications and Curriculum Development Agency and the Children's Workforce Development Council as the newly established Teaching Agency in April 2012.{{cite web |url=http://www.education.gov.uk/inthenews/inthenews/a0077895/teaching-agency-to-be-up-and-running-from-april-2012 |title=Teaching Agency to be up and running from April 2012 |author= |date=17 June 2011 |work= |publisher=Department for Education |accessdate=20 January 2012}}

The TDA was established as the Teacher Training Agency (TTA) by the Education Act 1994 and was relaunched as the TDA by the Education Act 2005.{{cite web|title=Records of the Teacher Training Agency and Successors|url=http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/displaycataloguedetails.asp?CATID=361&CATLN=1&accessmethod=5&j=1|publisher=The National Archives|accessdate=24 February 2012}}