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The Welsh Government intends to develop a part-time Post-graduate certificate of education (PGCE) Initial teacher education (ITE) route into teaching from academic year 2019. This new route will be a key component of the Welsh Government’s action plan for schools education, our national mission which states, ‘An education system cannot exceed the quality of its teachers, and our new curriculum cannot be delivered without a well-supported, aspirational teaching profession’. Through this new part-time PGCE we aim to remove barriers of geographical accessibility to postgraduate study. The flexibility of this new part-time route into teaching will be designed to provide opportunities to widen participation for those groups currently underrepresented in Wales’ teaching workforce, and enrich the profession by increasing diversity and allowing those with work-related experience from other fields and greater life-experience in general, to enter teaching. The Welsh Government intends to develop a part-time Post-graduate certificate of education (PGCE) Initial teacher education (ITE) route into teaching from academic year 2019. This new route will be a key component of the Welsh Government’s action plan for schools education, Our National Mission which states, ‘An education system cannot exceed the quality of its teachers, and our new curriculum cannot be delivered without a well-supported, aspirational teaching profession’. Through this new part-time PGCE we aim to remove barriers of geographical accessibility to postgraduate study. The flexibility of this new part-time route into teaching will be designed to provide opportunities to widen participation for those groups currently underrepresented in Wales’ teaching workforce, and enrich the profession by increasing diversity and allowing those with work-related experience from other fields and greater life-experience in general, to enter teaching. The new route will be both flexible and agile, involving effective professional support and development. It will meet the high-quality requirements of the new accreditation criteria for teacher education that have been established following the recommendations of Professor John Furlong’s report Teaching tomorrow’s teachers. The Welsh Government will establish the new route via a pan-Wales offer to part-time learners. It will be developed and offered by a HE provider (or partnership of more than one provider) working across Wales with the established regional education consortia as ITE partners. Subject to future priorities of Welsh Government and teaching profession there may be opportunities for the provider (or partnership) to support the development of resources and online infrastructure that could be used beyond ITE to support career-long professional learning for teachers. Early engagement – Information session. Tuesday 5.6.2018. The Cabinet Secretary for Education will be hosting an initial briefing session with Professor John Furlong. Venue: The Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay, Cardiff, CF10 5AL. Please email ITEducationAddysgGA@gov.wales if you wish to attend. For any queries please contact Lisa Drury-Lawson: 03000 251209 or lisa.drury@gov.wales