Professional Graduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) / Certificate in Education

The Professional Graduate Certificate in Education and Certificate in Education are professional qualifications for people teaching in further education colleges, sixth form colleges, schools, adult education, prison education, higher education, and a wide range of other education and training settings. | The courses are available to graduates and to non-graduates with appropriate vocational qualifications and is studied in-service (two years part-time). | The course is designed to encourage you to engage in activities which are directly related to their own teaching context. You are assessed through a mixture of essays, reports, assignments and practical tasks as appropriate for the learning outcomes of each individual module. It is a requirement that you pass the practical teaching elements of the course.

Participants will be observed teaching in their normal teaching context and formally assessed a number of times throughout the programme.