PGCert Professional Education (SENCO)

Bath Spa University

This Postgraduate Certificate is designed to build on the practical training you’ll receive as part of your professional qualification to become a SENCO (the NPQ). You’ll get the chance to engage more deeply with the theories and research that form the foundation of SENCO practice. It gives you the chance to become a critically reflective practitioner who can respond to the changing landscape of education and lead change. If you're an ambitious education professional who is currently training to become or is a newly qualified SENCO, this is also your chance to achieve an academic qualification at postgraduate level. The credits you'll gain can be used towards MA Inclusive Education and MA Professional Practice awards.

The PGCert Professional Education (SENCO) aims to provide you with structured opportunities to explore what educational research says about Special Educational Needs and Leadership in Education. It's intended to make you pause, think, analyse, explore, reflect and question.

You’ll critically explore areas such as pupil voice and parent engagement. Alongside this, you’ll investigate the key areas relating to the strategic and leadership aspect of the role, for example finance, data, management, and the role of Ofsted.

The PGCert Professional Education (SENCO) is made up of 60 Level 7 Masters credits; each assignment aims to extend your understanding of a key aspect of the related area and involve you in some in-depth analysis of professional practice, such that the ideas that you encounter in research and reading will have a direct impact on your practice as a developing professional.

The assignments focus on the concept of SEN, developing your criticality of theory and research, as well as your reflection on practice.

The PGCert Professional Education (SENCO) is linked to, and builds on, the NPQ. This means it can only be awarded if students successfully complete the NPQ with their chosen provider.