Education (Wales): Curriculum, MA

• Resident in Wales.
• Educated to degree level or equivalent.
• Have qualified teacher status (QTS) and be registered with the EWC as a teacher in a school, an advisory teacher in a local authority or a teacher in a setting such as a pupil referral unit (QTS and EWC registration must be maintained throughout the course of the programme) OR be a college lecturer and be registered with the EWC(EWC registration must be maintained throughout the course) OR be employed as a Teaching Assistant and be registered with the EWC.
• Be employed by a maintained school in Wales / college in Wales / local authority in Wales as a teacher / lecturer / advisory teacher / Teaching Assistant OR be employed by a registered independent school or specialist college; 
• Be employed on a minimum of 0.4 FTE contracts, this can include supply teachers/lecturers who are on long term contracts either with a Local Authority, school, college or an agency;  
• Be accepted/enrolled on this specific Masters in Education offered by the seven partnership HEIs which are: 

Swansea University 

UWTSD 

Aberystwyth University 

Wrexham Glyndwr University 

Bangor University  

USW 

Cardiff Met 

• Follow the Curriculum Pathway.  
• Candidates should have, where possible, the required approvals and support from their employer (school, local authority, setting or college) to undertake the National Masters in Education.  
• Where someone has already achieved a subject specific Masters, they are still eligible to apply for the funding towards this programme.  
• No other Masters in Education qualifications offered by the HEIs are eligible for this funding.