in out of the countries with available data an individual can teach at the preprimary level of education after earning a bachelor s degree or equivalent isced level at the end of initial teacher education however there are some exceptions in the slovak republic preprimary teachers can start teaching w ith an upper secondary diploma but an increasing number of teachers have now a bachelor or a master degree in germany and ireland they can begin teaching after graduating from a postsecondary vocational programme in austria they typically start initial teacher training at age when they enter upper secondary education and graduate at isced level after two years of a short tertiary cycle programme eg higher technical and vocational college