The government has confirmed it is developing a teaching apprenticeship route for non-graduates.
Trainees taking up the route would gain both a degree and qualified teacher status, under plans being drawn up by officials.
The idea of an undergraduate apprenticeship for classroom teachers has been considered repeatedly, amid pressure to boost recruitment and create more options for schools looking to spend apprenticeship levy funding.
Plans for an undergraduate route floated by education secretary Justine Greening in 2017 never came to fruition, and in more recent years ministers have only ever said they were looking at it.
