Starting 01/09/2025
King's Lynn
Part-Time
Duration 2 years
Part-time
Adults Employers Higher Education (UcWA)In-Service Post Graduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) - Level 7
The In-Service Certificate Post Graduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) is an award of the University of Huddersfield and is a full professional teaching qualification for teachers who are currently employed in the lifelong sector without a teaching qualification.
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Course Description
This course contains 60 credits of study at masters level (Level 7). The course, alongside our In-Service CertEd and Professional Graduate Certificates in Education, are for teachers in a wide range of settings within the lifelong learner sector such as further education, sixth form colleges, adult and community education, work-based learning, post-14 education and offender learning.
The course content, delivered over two years, includes principles in planning and delivering teaching, learning and assessment and a focus on delivery for a subject specialist area. Additionally, the course includes issues of equality, diversity, inclusion and social justice and enables the exploration of policy context and its impact on teaching practice. Other issues which are explored are those related to the use of English, maths and digital technologies in teaching and learning and the nature of professionalism in education.
Course content is delivered through class-based group sessions, lectures, seminars and tutorials delivered at the University Centre West Anglia. In response to Covid 19, to ensure trainees have experience of a virtual teaching and learning environment, some sessions are taught synchronously online.
Professional teaching experience is provided through current employment. The two aspects of theory and practice and how they are entwined are explored through group and tutorial discussion and reflective learning. There is currently a requirement to attend and contribute to, the Specialist Conference at the University on two occasions. Provisional dates are a Saturday in November and one Saturday in April.
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Entry Requirements
You will need:
*Access to a minimum of 250 hours of teaching over the 2 years
- Level 2 English and maths
*A degree
*A level 3 in your subject specialist area if your degree is not in your subject specialism
*A clear DBS check
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Course Fees
Academic Year Fee for the year 25/26 £3775 We set our course fees annually. As students pay a fee for each year of their course, the fees set for future academic years may be higher than those set in the 2024 / 2025 academic year.
For each future academic year of your course of study, your fees may be subject to review and increase on a basis in line with the Retail Prices Index (RPI) plus 3%. RPI is a measure of inflation published monthly by the Office for National Statistics which measures the changes from month to month in the cost of a representative sample of retail goods and services bought by consumers within the UK. This means that your course fees will not be increased each year by more than RPI + 3% from the previous year's fees and will not ever exceed the maximum amount that the government allows higher education institutions to charge students in the related academic year.
Fee information
Information about course fees and student finance can be found below.
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Additional Information
What qualification will I achieve?
In-Service Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE, Level 7)
How is my course assessed?
Your achievement will be assessed in a variety of ways such as written assignments, micro-teach, observations of your teaching, professional discussions and presentations to peers.
This course is accredited by University of Huddersfield
Terms and changes to programmes
Every effort to ensure the information on this page is accurate, however there may be scenarios where the college is required to make amend or alter aspects of the programme, college provision or delivery. Should this occur after you have accepted a place at the college, you will be consulted and agreement sought. You will be entitled to withdraw from any obligations to the college, and where relevant receive any refund or compensation, as per your Terms and Conditions and the Student Protection Plan of the relevant validating awarding organisation. More information is available on our Terms page.