questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if her Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of mandating universities to award honorary teaching degrees to people who gained a certificate of education from teacher training colleges prior to the year 2000.
answerText: The department does not have degree awarding powers and is therefore not in a position to award honorary teaching degrees. The award of degrees can only be made by institutions with degree-awarding powers.
heading: Teachers: Degrees