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PGCE - Postgraduate Certificate of Education
Southwark Campus
Full Time
APR-24
12 months
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PGCE - Postgraduate Certificate of Education
Southwark Campus
Full time
APR-24
12 months
Select a an exam type
Overview
Our programme will give you an in-depth understanding of inclusive practice, equality and diversity to prepare you for a aspiring career in teaching. You'll experience placements in different schools and also have an opportunity to work in an Alternative Education Setting.
This course leads to Qualified Teacher Status (QTS). This course equips you to teach primary aged pupils, with a focus on the 5-11 age phase (Key Stage 1 and 2), or 3-7 age phase (Early Years and Key Stage 1), through school-based training, lectures, seminars, workshops and tutorials. You'll gain 60 Master's level credits and be awarded with a Postgraduate Certificate in Education.
LSBU has a particular focus on social justice and equality that is well matched to the needs of schools in urban and multicultural areas. We encourage creativity, reflective pedagogy and sensitivity to educational issues.
Employability
Completion and employment rates for our PGCE are both above the sector norms and we have been identified as a good provider of initial teacher training (OFSTED 2014). Although we pride ourselves in providing teachers for London schools, successful students enter the teaching profession in a variety of schools within the UK.
All students entering the course have the possibility of gaining up to 60 credits at Masters level, which can be used by students to count towards the award of full Masters qualifications (such as the LSBU MA in Education) gained via further study after graduation.
Professional links
Academics from other institutions and related industries are invited as guest speakers to form part of the Equality Inclusion and Citizenship module. The Alternative Educational Settings placement provides an opportunity for you to experience teaching and learning in a completely different environment, and is one of the unique aspects of our programme.
Teaching and learning
We teach through lectures, workshops, practical sessions, seminars and tutorials. The aim throughout is to encourage creativity, reflective pedagogy and sensitivity to educational issues, aims and objectives. We aim to provide a learning community that actively challenges inequality and injustice.
In particular, the module on Equality, Inclusion and Citizenship will allow you to reflect on key issues such as equality, diversity and sustainability in the educational context.
You will be encouraged to make links between the theoretical and practical elements of the course. We use an interactive model of teaching and learning to encourage you to inform your understanding of effective methods of teaching and learning and how best to apply these in classroom situations.
Students should have a UK or equivalent degree (Lower Second Class or above). This may be in any subject; it does not have to be a National Curriculum subject; and a standard equivalent to a GCSE grade C / grade 4 in mathematics, English language and a science subject or equivalency test passes awarded by A* Star Equivalency and Equivalency Testing. Applicants who have not yet met this requirement are welcome to apply, but will not be able to start the course until they they have met this requirement; and A positive reference that highlights the candidate's suitability to become a teacher; and A written personal statement. All entrants to ITE courses are required to undergo both an enhanced criminal record check through the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS), formerly known as the Criminal Records Bureau (CRB), and an Occupational Health check before they can be admitted to a course. LSBU pays for both of these checks. Once you accept an offer from us, we will provide you with guidance on how to apply for your DBS and OH checks.
Students living in
Domestic
£9,250 per year
Students from Domestic
This is the fee you pay if the University is in the same country that you live in (England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland)
£15,500 per year
Students from EU
The amount you'll pay if you come to study here from somewhere in the EU.
£15,500 per year
Students from International
The amount you'll pay if you come to study here from a country outside the EU.
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