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PGCE - Postgraduate Certificate of Education
University of Chester - Exton Park
Full Time
Sep 2026
1 Year
In conjunction with Secondary Lead School partners, the University of Chester offer Art and Design (11-16 with sixth form enhancement) as a subject specialism leading to the award PGCE with QTS. Teaching is an extremely rewarding and challenging career. Our course is designed to provide you with the knowledge, understanding and skills that you need to be an outstanding teacher. We aim to nurture teachers who are passionate about the development of their own and their pupils' learning. Art and Design is taught in conjunction with Secondary Lead School partners: Alliance of Leading Learning, Sandstone Trust, Salop Teaching Partnership, Teach Cheshire and Wade Deacon Trust. During the course, you will learn how to encourage young people’s understanding of art and design through your subject specialism. We encourage Art and Design trainees to be: enthusiastic and confident in the classroom pedagogically skilful and adaptable specialists in the teaching of Art and Design: demonstrating practical skills and a knowledge of subject history able to see their subject in the context of the whole curriculum competent in a number of areas that cross secondary school curriculum boundaries able to work as part of a team .
The University of Chester is a 21 st century university which traces its roots back to 1839, placing it among the oldest...