TransformED NI: Transforming teaching and learning: a strategy for Educational Excellence in Northern Ireland
TransformED NI: Transforming teaching and learning: a strategy for Educational Excellence in Northern Ireland
TransformED NI outlines a comprehensive strategy for the transformation of teaching and learning in Northern Ireland. The strategy focuses on the core areas of curriculum, assessment, qualifications, school improvement and tackling educational disadvantage. Reform in each of these areas will be underpinned by significant investment in high-quality teacher professional development.
TransformED NI Executive Summary
In April 2024, the Department published the TransformED Delivery Plan which translates the strategy’s vision for educational excellence into actionable steps. It sets out a clear delivery approach, key delivery partners, indicative timescales and estimated costs to ensure effective implementation of each of the actions within TransformED.
The key elements of the strategy have been summarised as a ten-point plan for educational excellence, which aims to bring a new drive and coherence to the improvement of our system.
Each of these ten strategic commitments aims to learn systematically from the most effective and fastest improving school systems in the world and to tackle the weaknesses currently identified within our system.
The Department of Education hosted the TransformED School Leaders’ Conference in May 2025. The conference focused on key areas within the TransformED NI Strategy, including curriculum, assessment, accountability, improvement and professional learning.
TransformED School Leaders’ Conference
A TransformED magazine has been produced for school leaders and teachers, to help increase understanding and provide more information on key concepts within the TransformED strategy:
TransformED magazine - Issue 1
TransformED magazine - Issue 2
TransformED committed to prioritising the professional learning needs of the teaching workforce in Northern Ireland. The Department has established an innovative Online Teacher CPD Academy in partnership with InnerDrive, a UK leader in cognitive science-based educational training. The new initiative will deliver high-impact, evidence-informed professional development to Northern Ireland’s post-primary teachers.
Teacher Professional Learning (TPL) Fund
The TPL Fund aims to ensure all schools can access high-quality professional learning, providing schools with dedicated funding to support professional development over a three-year period. The £31 million investment will support the ongoing development of teachers and school leaders across Northern Ireland. This funding forms a key part of the Department’s TransformED NI Strategy launched in March 2025. The Strategy sets out a clear vision for transforming teaching and learning, with a strong emphasis on excellence, equity and efficiency.
To support planning, details of each school’s funding allocation are provided in the attached spreadsheets. These figures are intended to guide planning and should be viewed as indicative.