R6: Enhanced Pathways for Professional
Development
To attract the best and brightest to make teaching a
profession of choice, the stature and professionalism of
teachers will need to be improved. To this end, two new
academic learning pathways are being proposed to enable
highly qualified student teachers to obtain a Master’s
degree within a shorter timeframe.
NIE will be using a staged approach for the
implementation of the following pathways:
• 2-year full time PGDE-Master’s programme
( figure 8 )
• 4+1 accelerated Bachelor-Master’s programme for
the top 10% of the cohort ( figure 9 )