The PGCE Religious Education at Kings is set in the heart of London and trainees benefit from access to a wide variety of places of worship and museums, including the National Gallery. Kings works in close partnership with schools across London in designing, delivering and assessing the course. You will have the opportunity to work with tutors who are actively engaged in research, and you will be encouraged to engage critically with educational pedagogy, policy and practice.

Key benefits

• An Ofsted Outstanding rated course that is designed around a strong research and pastoral base to provide you with the skills you need to thrive as a teacher. In the last research assessment exercise, the department was rated as the leading education institution for research in London (REF, 2021).
• A working partnership with a broad range of schools in London and beyond, offering unique opportunities to learn how to teach a diverse mix of students.
• Across all PGCE subjects, 92% of our PGCE trainees who applied for teaching posts after graduation were employed as Early Career Teachers (ECTs) at schools in the UK and abroad (JISC Graduate Outcomes Survey 2024).
• Two assessed pieces of coursework give you 60 Masters-level credits – a third of an MA – which puts you well on the way to a Masters degree in your chosen profession.

Employability

The majority of trainees go into teaching or other areas of education many become heads of departments or members of senior management teams some take up careers in educational administration in the advisory or inspection services.