Help nutshell! I hear that all new history teachers being trained now have to have a Masters degree.

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It's certainly not compulsory, but you're right that a new kind of Masters course - a Masters in Teaching and Learning (MTL) - is being offered to some NQTs as a step towards making teaching a ‘Masters-level profession'. The scheme is being ‘rolled out' in stages, and starts, this year, with a fully-funded course available to all NQTs (primary as well as secondary) in the North West. All the universities involved in initial teacher training have been asked to work together, and in partnership with schools, to develop the course. In other regions the MTL is only being offered to NQTs working in ‘National Challenge' schools or in some schools facing challenging circumstances, but newly appointed HODs in such schools can also enrol.