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Course Overview

This postgraduate course paves the way for you to teach post-14 learners in settings ranging from colleges, academies, and secondary schools to prisons and voluntary organisations.

  • Study on a course rated ‘outstanding' by Ofsted for its high standard of training and assessment. We are currently the only university to be awarded this rating under the new Ofsted regime. 
  • Improve your career and promotion prospects: we have an excellent track record for helping students progress to employment, more senior roles, or masters level study
  • Develop your skills through an exciting combination of practical teaching experiences, theoretical learning and discussions
  • Select an optional specialist pathway where you can focus on a key subject area: choose from English, Maths, Engineering, Sport, or teaching learners with disabilities
  • Choose a flexible PGCE route to suit you: study on a full-time basis at the University or on a part-time basis at one of our partner colleges in the wider community 
  • Learn from a dynamic teaching team with an excellent reputation for the quality of their training and the impact of their research.

This course equips you for the practical demands of teaching in the Further Education and Skills sector, building your skills and confidence to work with post-14 learners in a vast range of educational settings.

What you will study?

  • Effective Teaching Learning and Assessment
  • Developing Evidence-Based Practice to Improve Teaching
  • Principles of Educational Theory and Practice
  • The Reflective Professional
  • Curriculum in Context

Optional/pathway modules:

  • Practitioner Research Project
  • Teaching Higher Education in Colleges
  • Promoting Effective Classroom Behaviours
  • Educational Leadership and Management
  • Post-14 Teaching Across the Sectors
  • Teaching Maths in the Post-14 sector
  • Teaching English up to Level 3 in the Post-14 Sector
  • The Effective Teaching of STEM Engineering
  • Supporting Learners with Disabilities
  • The Effective Teaching of Sport in the Post-14 Sector

Please note that our modules are subject to change - we review the content of our courses regularly, making changes where necessary to improve your experience and graduate prospects.

Specialist pathway

Our PGCE Post-14 gives you the chance to select from a variety of teaching specialisms, drawing on the extensive expertise of the University. Depending on your preference and any prior experience, you can choose to specialise in English, Maths, Engineering, Sport or teaching learners with disabilities.

The pathway you select will be reflected throughout the course in both core and specialist modules, in your assignments and on your teaching placement. It means you can focus on your area of interest while gaining a strong foundation of general skills in education and training.  

Entry Requirement 

You will need an undergraduate degree (minimum 2:2) in a subject that is applicable to the Further Education and Skills sectors, such as psychology, law, media, sports, and music technology. You will also need a level 2 qualification in English and Maths as approved by the Society for Education and Training 

A Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) is required at the point of accepting a place at the University. The Disclosure and Barring Service was established when the Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) and Independent Safeguarding Authority (ISA) merged in 2012 and will now provide the criminal records checking service for this course.

If you have lived outside of the UK in the past five years (excluding holidays), you will need to provide a current satisfactory Certificate of Good Conduct from the country you were resident in. You will need to submit this at your course induction.

Fees

UK Student fee

Full-Time fee: £9250 for the full course*


This information was accurate on : 24/04/2021
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