Starting 01/09/2025
King's Lynn
Part-Time
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Adults Employers Higher Education (UcWA)The Level 6 In-Service Professional Graduate Certificate (PGCE) in Education is suitable for teachers employed in the sector without a teaching qualification and to teachers employed in a voluntary capacity. The sector includes working in colleges of further education, sixth form colleges, adult and community education, work-based learning, post-14 education and offender learning. Teaching practice is a key component of your learning, provided through current employment.
Your understanding will be strengthened through engagement with course activities to contextualise general principles within your practice.
The following are seen as essential parts of the professional repertoire and activity of a teacher and are integrated into the course:
The course has a modular structure consisting of four core modules. Each module carries a credit rating of 30 credits, and a total of 120 credits required to gain the award.
To be aged 19+ at the commencement of the qualification
Maintain a current teaching role with a minimum of 250 hours of practice, of which 150 hours should be teaching time throughout the duration of the two-year course
A degree
A full level 3 qualification in your chosen subject area if your degree is not in that subject
Level 2 in English and maths
A clear DBS check
Following the successful completion of the course; you would be a fully qualified teacher within the Further Education sector and eligible to apply for Qualified Teacher Learning and Skills (QTLS) status. QTLS is a professional status currently awarded by the Education and Training Foundation, gained by successfully completing a period of professional formation
Information about course fees and student finance can be found below.
Level 6 In-Service Professional Graduate Certificate in Education (PGCE)
In general, apart from practical teaching, each module is assessed by assignments. The assignments normally contain a written component but, where appropriate, also entail presentations. Practical teaching is assessed by a teaching portfolio containing evidence of planning, preparation and assessment with rationales, evaluation of own teaching, observations of teaching and feedback, a reflective journal and engagement in the wider teaching role.
In year 2, to pass the Being a Subject Specialist Teacher module, students are expected to attend two days at a Specialist Conference hosted at the University of Huddersfield. These will take place at two separate points in the academic year and one of these days is expected to be face-to-face. Travel and accommodation costs are not included in the course fees.
Starting 01/09/2025
King's Lynn
Part-Time