Course summary

• Train for a rewarding career in secondary chemistry teaching.
• Gain hands-on experience with 120 days of school-based training.
• Benefit from a supportive, collaborative environment that produces exceptional teachers.
• Attain a masters-level PGCE or a PCE alongside Qualified Teacher Status (QTS).
• Prepare for work on a course with a 90% employment record and bursaries available.

This course ensures that you're fully prepared for a career in teaching secondary chemistry. We help you to grow academically and professionally, gaining advanced qualifications alongside practical training. You'll graduate as an experienced and employable chemistry teacher, ready to inspire and impart your enthusiasm.

How you learn

All our courses are designed around a set of key principles based on engaging you with the world, collaborating with others, challenging you to think in new ways, and providing you with a supportive environment in which you can thrive.

This course provides an advanced academic qualification alongside the real-world experience that is so vital for teaching. Along with honing your chemistry skills, you'll learn crucial techniques in behaviour management and student support. There are 120 days of school-based training that allow you to become used to the realities of teaching before graduation. You are assessed through supportive, collaborative means, helping you to grow and improve.

You learn through

• 120 days of school-based training across at least two settings
• seminars
• workshops
• lectures
• observation
• collaborative planning
• one-to-one sessions
• group work
• practical work
• independent study
• written assessments

Future careers

This course prepares you for a career in

• teaching Key Stage 3, 4 or 5 chemistry
• academic careers as researcher via Masters level study and PhD
• local authority/voluntary sector work or research
• non-government organisation (NGO) administrative and research posts
• enrichment work with young people
• more general graduate careers including, for example, retail management and the civil service

Many of our students go on into full-time positions at their placement school. The course is vocational in nature, and our graduate employment rate is usually well in excess of 90%.