The National Institute of Education (NIE) is presently a tertiary institution, an independent institute of the Nanyang Technological University (NTU). It was established in July 1991, with the merging of the Institute of Education (IE), formed in April 1973 to provide professional pre-service programmes for the training of teachers as well as in-service programmes for the further training of qualified teachers; and the College of Physical Education (CPE), which was establishd in April 1984 to train specialist teachers of physical education for primary, secondary schools and junior colleges.
All the functions and roles played by the IE and CPE were taken over by the NIE with its establishment.
